Tan-Che-Qua

[3] He exhibited his work at the Royal Academy in 1770, and his clay models became fashionable in London for a short period.

After the merchant Loum Kiqua in 1756–1757, and the Christian convert Michael Shen Fuzong in 1687, Tan-Che-Qua is one of the earliest Chinese people known to have visited England.

[3] In his middle years, Tan-Che-Qua arrived in London from Canton on 11 August 1769 on the East Indiaman Horsendon.

The Museum of London has another attributed to Tan-Che-Qua of the London merchant Thomas Todd; the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has one of the Dutch merchant Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest; and one of David Garrick is in a private collection,[3] which is confirmed not out of his hand but that of another Chinese modeller working in Canton in the 1730s.

[7] The portrait was misidentified as Wang-y-tong, another Chinese visitor to London in the 1770s, who attended meetings of the Royal Society.

Portrait of Tan Che-qua, by John Hamilton Mortimer , 1770 or 1771, Royal College of Surgeons of England [ 1 ]
Polychrome wooden sculpture of a western lady holding a child, attributed to Chitqua, c. 1775, Rijksmuseum . [ 2 ]