- Lam Qua
Lam Qua (zh-cp|c=林官|p=Lín Guān), or real name, Guan Qiaochang or Kwan Kiu Cheong ( _zh. 關喬昌) (1801 – 1860) was a Western-trained Chinese painter from
Guangdong Province ofQing Dynasty China . Lam Qua was the first Chinese portrait painter to be exhibited in the West and is best known for his medical portraiture. He had a workshop inThirteen Factories ofCanton City, China .In the 1820s, Lam Qua studied with
George Chinnery , the first English painter to settle in China. Lam Qua became well-known and skilled in Western style of portraiture. He developed a following among the international community. George Chinnery painted Lam Qua and his brother Tin Qua ( _zh. 庭官), Kwan Luen Cheong ( _zh. 關聯昌). Eventually, Chinnery broke with Lam Qua when Lam Qua began to lower his prices, undercutting Chinnery.From 1836 to 1855, Lam Qua produced a series of medical portraits of patients under treatment with
physician Peter Parker, a medical missionary from theUnited States . Dr. Parker commissioned Lam Qua to paint pre-operative portraits of patients who had large tumors or other major deformities. Some of the paintings are now part of a collection of Lam Qua's work held by theYale University in the [http://www.med.yale.edu/library/subjects/digital.html Peter Parker Collection] at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library.External links
*Gilman, S. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3511337&dopt=Abstract "Lam Qua and the development of a westernized medical iconography in China"] J. Medical Hist. (1986)
* [http://www.med.yale.edu/library/subjects/digital.html Peter Parker Collection] Yale University
*Chang, J. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8342936&dopt=Abstract "A reconstructive surgeon's taste in art: Dr Peter Parker and the Lam Qua oil paintings"] Ann Plast Surg. (1993)
*Hume, Edward [http://jhmas.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/1/4/670 "Peter Parker and the Introduction of Anesthesia into China"] Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (1946)
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