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PREVIOUSLY IN THE COLLECTION OF HELEN AND ROBERT JAMES WICKINS (LOTS 854-855)
FENG XIANSHI (1753-1820)
Fishing in the Summer River
Details
FENG XIANSHI (1753-1820)
Fishing in the Summer River
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk
123 x 51.5 cm. (48 3/8 x 20 1/4 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist and one illegible seal
Dated summer, dingmao year (1807)
Fishing in the Summer River
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk
123 x 51.5 cm. (48 3/8 x 20 1/4 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist and one illegible seal
Dated summer, dingmao year (1807)
Further details
Helen and Robert James Wickins collected Chinese art from the 1970’s to 1990’s while living in Hong Kong. Helen, a social worker and teacher and her husband Robert, a lawyer, moved to Hong Kong in 1976. Robert took a position as Associate Professor of Law at the Hong Kong Polytechnic, while Helen taught English and History at the Diocesan Girls’ School. They remained in Hong Kong for twenty years and returned to Adelaide, Australia in early 1998.