Bust of a Chinese Gentleman

Bust of a Chinese Gentleman is a bronze bust of a Chinese man sculpted and donated to the National Museum of Singapore by the former Assistant Protector of the Chinese William George Stirling in 1939. The bust does not depict any particular subject as it was Stirling's idea of a typical successful Chinese merchant.

The sculpture first appeared in an interview with Stirling, where he was working on a clay model of a Chinese merchant. It was donated to the Raffles Museum (now known as the National Museum of Singapore) in 1939 by Stirling through the Friends of Singapore, where it was placed in the front lawn of the museum. In June 1985, the bust was stored as its proximity to a marked time capsule was deemed visually unappealing. Following some outcry by museum visitors, it was relocated to a driveway near its original site a month later. The bust was in storage during museum renovations in 2003 and reinstalled in 2013 in the Port City section of the Singapore History Gallery. Previously a "public work of art", it was reclassified as a "historical artefact".