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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Chinese barber and customer is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew a quiet moment in a barber shop. A barber leans over his seated customer. In the corner sits the round water container and the barber’s flat hat. This sketch is dated September 29, 1825. George Chinnery made it in pencil or ink. It captures everyday life in the early 1800s. Check out George Chinnery’s other scenes of China.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a barber leaning over a seated customer, with the barber's cylindrical water-container and hat placed beside them. The work is part of a volume containing 130 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and nearby areas. The drawing was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 works by Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist 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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