19
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
A boatwoman at her oar is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts a boatwoman in the stern of a boat, leaning back as she pulls a long oar with both hands; she is barefoot and wears a headscarf, with a broad-brimmed hat beside her. Created in pen and ink over pencil, the work is part of an album of drawings by George Chinnery acquired by the museum in 1921 from P & D Colnaghi. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist and landscape painter before relocating to India in 1802 and later settling in Macau in 1825, where he remained until his death in 1852.
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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