Photographs of Low Kway Song’s painting of Bishop L. Archer and unveiling ceremony

Title
Photographs of Low Kway Song’s painting of Bishop L. Archer and unveiling ceremony
Object Type
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2018-00244
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Hall of Phoenix and Peony

These photographs show Low Kway Song’s portrait of Bishop Raymond Leroy Archer (1887-1970) and an unveiling ceremony. Low Kway Song (1889-1982) was a pioneering artist who painted portraits of many prominent personalities in Singapore and Malaysia. He became the first artist to be paid a four-figure fee when he was commissioned to paint a portrait of the magnate Oei Tiong Ham in 1927. Low Kway Song established the first Straits Chinese Methodist Church in Malacca and in 1940 he became the Pastor of the Malacca Straits Chinese Methodist Church, where services were conducted in Baba Malay. Part of an archive which provides a record and glimpse into his personal life and artistic practice, this came from a collection which belonged to Low Kway Song.