Chinese marine painter of the 19th c. The barque ''Barbarossa'' at sea. Around 1865, oil/canvas, unsigned, 45 x 59 cm, restored and retouched, right margin with paint chipping, craquelée, framed 60 x 74,5 cm. Built in Bremen in 1854, the barque was first called ''Robert'', was acquired by the Bremen shipping company Hachez & Müller in 1862 and sailed from then on under the name ''Barbarossa'' on the Southeast Asia route to Akyab, Rangoon, Singapore and Hong Kong, among others. In 1867 she was sold to the Netherlands. Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt, II, p. 388ff.

Category: Painting-Graphics 19th-20th Century.