🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Need help with artist ID.

[Marino13]

Picture is of Chinese origin. But artist appears to be a C
Christian? Date is either 1803 or 1903. Debating on whether to bid on this. I like the subject matter, but provenance would be nice. Thank you.

 

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[DCMatt]

This probably doesn't help much, but the painting is of Canton Harbor in the early 19th C. The international flags flying over the foreign factories tell the story.

I saw a few other paintings from a similar vantage point. This one is from 1805.

 

[DCMatt]

Another from 1805 - 06:

 

[DCMatt]

I found a few others. If you Google "the English factories at Canton", you can see them. The latest I saw was painted in 1850. Several were valued in the $375 USD range. That's asking price, not sold price as far as I could tell...