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Provenance
Private collection, Canada.
The present lot depicts two Filipinas performing a traditional folk dance for their Scottish guests, Laurence Robert Bell (the current owner's great grandfather) and his sister Georgina Bell, which is thought to have taken place on Christmas day in 1857. Andrews had only just moved to Hong Kong from Sydney in 1857, visiting Manila in the same year. He worked for the press in Hong Kong and the Philippines from 1857 into the 1860s, and was the main artist for the short-lived Ilustracion Filipina in Manila in 1859-60.