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Lot 29 WORKS BY GEORGE CHINNERY FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION (Lots 29-31)
Alice Heard presumably the same Alice Heard who was the source of the Heard family business records acquired by the Harvard Business School (Baker Library) in 1931. Augustine Heard (1785-1868), from the Heard merchant family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, established the China trading firm of Augustine Heard and Company in 1840 with partner and friend Joseph Coolidge. Augustine Heard & Co. carried on a commission business in China, with its main offices first in Canton, and then Hong Kong, from 1840 to the spring of 1875.
Alice Heard presumably the same Alice Heard who was the source of the Heard family business records acquired by the Harvard Business School (Baker Library) in 1931. Augustine Heard (1785-1868), from the Heard merchant family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, established the China trading firm of Augustine Heard and Company in 1840 with partner and friend Joseph Coolidge. Augustine Heard & Co. carried on a commission business in China, with its main offices first in Canton, and then Hong Kong, from 1840 to the spring of 1875.
George Chinnery (1774-1852)
A tanka boat on the shore, Macao
Closed15 December 2016
Price Realised
GBP 13,750