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Charles Lewis Fussell
(American, 1840–1909)
Malay Lumber Wagon and Water Buffaloes, Singapore
Oil on canvas mounted on board, 5 × 4 inches
Signed at lower right: “C. L. Fussell”; inscribed at lower left: “Malay/Lumber Wagon and Buffaloes/Singapore” RS 1315
These five (plates 47–51) undated, small grisaille illustrations of daily life in Hong Kong and Singapore are stylistically similar to Fussell’s Academy Students Dissecting a Horse (1879, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), which was the source for an engraving published that year in Scribner’s Magazine. It is likely that these ethnographic scenes were also painted as illustrations for a magazine article or book. These paintings are possibly related to an oriental subject that Fussell exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1878, a pen and ink drawing called The Heathen Chinee (location unknown). A sixth painting from the series, Malay Charrie, Singapore, is in a private collection.1
Copyright©2007 The Schwarz Gallery
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