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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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A group of four Chinese figures is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts four Chinese figures in a crouched or bent posture, gazing downward at two baskets. The work was acquired in 1921 from P & D Colnaghi and originally part of an album of Chinnery’s drawings. Chinnery, a British artist active in India and China, is known for his portraits and sketches of local life in Macau and Canton during the early 19th century.
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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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