14
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A barber and customer, and other figure sketches is a 14 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a barber cutting a customer’s hair. It’s done in ink and pencil. You can see the barber’s hands on the man’s head, plus quick sketches of women and men nearby. The artist made this in 1849, in Macau. It’s part of the Romanticism movement, though it feels like a slice-of-life moment. If you like this, look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts a barber attending to a seated customer on a triangular chest-stool, with detailed studies of the barber’s hands and additional sketches of Macanese women and Chinese men. It is part of an album of 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange and contains 93 works by George Chinnery, who worked in British India and later settled in Macau.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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