Title
Untitled
Year/Period
around 1920s
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Image size: 60.0 x 43.2 cm,
Frame size: 99.0 x 72.5 x 2.3 cm
Frame size: 99.0 x 72.5 x 2.3 cm
Accession No.
2018-00023
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
This hand-coloured photograph shows a woman with a baby on her lap. Inscribed on the photograph is the studio mark ‘The Eastern Studio Singapore’. The donor believes that this may be one of the few surviving portraits of Ms. Lucy Ho Kiem Hoa (1901 – 1965), the last wife of Oei Tiong Ham, with one of her three children.Eastern Studio was set up by the early 1920s by Lee King Yan, who was also the founder of Lee Brothers Studio. A well-respected photographer in Singapore, newspapers lauded him as ‘one of the pioneers of photography’ in Singapore and the ‘Colony’s Grand Old Man of Photography’ at the time of his passing.
