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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Market stalls outside S. Domingos Church, Macau is a 14 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows busy market stalls packed outside a church in Macau. The artist used quick lines to capture the crowd and the church’s stone walls. It’s one of the few detailed records of daily life in 19th-century Macau. The church still stands today near the same spot where stalls once crowded the square. If you like this, check out more works by Chinnery, George.
A drawing depicts figures gathered around market stalls, with the walls and railings of S. Domingos Church sketched in the background, accompanied by a separate study of a finial. Part of an album containing 175 sheets of sketches made in China and India, the work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of a collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist and landscape painter in India before settling in Macau in 1825, where he remained until his death in 1852.
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George Chinnery (Chinese: 錢納利; 5 January 1774 – 30 May 1852) was an English painter who spent most of his life in Asia, especially India and southern China.
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