A Chinese Dignitary Seated on a Throne (one of eleven panels with Chinoiserie decoration)
1696
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1696
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Chinese Dignitary Seated on a Throne (one of eleven panels with Chinoiserie decoration) is a 1696 oil by Robert Robinson, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a Chinese dignitary sitting on a throne. He's dressed in fancy clothes and looks important. The painting is part of a set of 11 panels with similar decorations. The artist, Robert Robinson, didn't leave much information about himself. He made two sets of these panels, but not much else is known about his work. Check out the work of artist: Robinson, Robert.
This oil panel is one of eleven Chinoiserie decorations by Robert Robinson, depicting a Chinese dignitary seated under a canopied throne carried by four bearers and leading a riverside procession past temple steps. The scene blends fanciful grotesques with motifs drawn from Chinese, Tartar, and Indian imagery, set against a once-blue background now grey. Painted in 1696, the set likely adorned a London interior and anticipates the later vogue for Chinoiserie by several decades. Robinson’s surviving output consists largely of these two panel sets, with the other preserved example combining…
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Robert Robinson (1886–1952) was an artist, born in Wilkes-Barre.
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