# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lam-qua
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:08:44.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lam-qua"
name: "Lam Qua"
slug: "lam-qua"
description: "Lam Qua, or Kwan Kiu Cheong (關喬昌), was a Chinese painter from the Canton province in Qing dynasty China, who specialized in Western-style portraits intended largely for Western clients. Lam Qua was the first Chinese portrait painter to be exhibited in the West. He is known for his medical portraiture, and for his portraits of Western and Chinese merchants in Canton and Macau. He had a workshop in 'New China Street' among the Thirteen Factories in Canton."
tagline: "Chinese artist (1801-1860)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lam_Qua_self_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1801"
deathDate: "1860"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.15
  momentum:             0.2819738167170192
  historical:           6.170089333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%97%9C%E5%96%AC%E6%98%8C"
    title: "關喬昌"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Qua"
    title: "Lam Qua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Qua"
    title: "Lam Qua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Qua"
    title: "Lam Qua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Qua"
    title: "Lam Qua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Qua"
    title: "Lam Qua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%97%9C%E5%96%AC%E6%98%8C"
    title: "關喬昌"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3359237"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump