1842
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A barber and customer is a 1842 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing by George Chinnery from 1842 depicts a barber attending to a customer seated on a stool, part of a volume containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, established himself as a prominent artist in British India before settling in Macau in 1825, where he remained until his death in 1852. His sitters included Western merchants, Chinese hong merchants, and Tanka boatwomen.
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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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