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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A sleeping Chinese man and a Portuguese soldier is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing from 1839 to 1846. It shows a sleeping Chinese man beside two sketches of a Portuguese soldier. George Chinnery made it during his time in Asia. The soldier stands with arms folded and a musket on his shoulder. The spare linework leaves the man’s face blank, as if he’s lost in sleep. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts a sleeping Chinese man alongside two studies of a Portuguese soldier in uniform, one with arms folded and another carrying a musket. Part of a volume containing 460 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal, it was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 works by George Chinnery. Chinnery, an English artist born in 1774, worked extensively 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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