Paintings

The Chinese painter Namcheong painted Chinese port scenes and views of ships and boats on the Pearl River near Canton in the mid nineteenth century. He painted in oils on canvas and sometimes his red chop appears on the back of the canvas. . He had a  distinct style and his use of light and compositional devices make his paintings identifiable. Because many of his pictures feature the Whampoa anchorage or pagoda it was likely that his studio was based in Whampoa.  In the 1860s he set up a studio in Hong Kong on the Queen's Road.

In the 1860s he also set up a studio in Hong Kong on the Queen's Road. His studio sign is identifiable on the first floor of an elegant building on the Queen's Road in a photograph taken by the local photographer Afong Lai in the late 1860s and reads, Nam Cheong from Whampoa, Portrait & Landscape Painter & c. No.70.

Reference

Crossman, Carl L. The Decorative Arts of the China Trade 1991

Conner, Patrick   Paintings of the China Trade 2013