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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A seated Western man is a 18 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew this in 1844. It’s a quick sketch on paper, not meant to be fancy. Just a man sitting with his legs to the side of his chair, reading a book. The artist made two studies at once. One shows the seated man, the other shows just a foot and part of a leg. Both use loose, fast lines. Try looking up cross-hatching next.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a seated Western man with his legs swung to the side of his chair, holding an open book, accompanied by a study of a left foot and lower leg. Part of a volume containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal, the work was bequeathed in 1928 as part of an album with 93 drawings by Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, established himself as a prominent Western artist in British 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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