Willam Alexander Watercolour Drawing Chinese Bronze Lion Guardian From The Summer Palace Beijing Circa.1792 Juvenal A group of three red

A group of three red chalk and pencil studies of women

And I feel we have lost a possible treasure to the world

Signed with initials and dated

He served as a teacher and the headmaster of the Bruges Academy

Salisbury (left)

Willam Alexander Watercolour Drawing Chinese Bronze Lion Guardian From The Summer Palace Beijing Circa.1792 Juvenal A group of three redWilliam Alexander 1767 1816. British School. Watercolour drawing. Bronze Statue of a Chinese Lion. Signed with initials lower right. 11. 5 by 10 cms. Provenance: Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, London, 100th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours & Drawings, 15 January 16 February 1973, No. 130. William Alexander was a prominent late 18th Century English artist, painter, and engraver who served as the official draughtsman on the 1792 1794 Macartney Embassy to