Auction Closed
January 25, 03:59 AM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
FRANCES C. FAIRMAN
British
1836 - 1923
THE BOXER REBELLION
signed F.C. Fairman.1902. (lower right), inscribed [..]d Kingdom Japan China 1901 (on a scroll at lower center)
oil on canvas
44 ¼ by 34 in.; 112.4 by 86.4 cm
Mrs. Hugh Andrews,📖 Toddington Manor, ✃Gloucestershire (according to a label on the reverse)
W. Secord, Dog Painting, 1840-1940: A Social History of the Dog in Art (Suffolk, England, 1992)&�🐈�nbsp;p. 99, illustrated
The dogs represent Great Britain and France signing the peace treaty, the Boxer Protocol, that ended the Boxer Rebellion, ෴𒁏an anti-imperialist uprising in China that took place between 1899 and 1901 at the end of the Qing dynasty. Great Britain and France were part of an Eight-Nation Alliance, which also included the United States, Russia, Japan, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. China and the Eight-Nation Alliance signed the Boxer Protocol on September 7, 1901.