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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Western woman and a bearded man in a helmet is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a woman with loose curls next to a man in a tall helmet. George Chinnery made it between 1825 and 1852, so it sits smack in the Romantic period. Rings around the woman’s hair and the helmet’s height hint at a story or scene he was prepping to paint. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a Western woman with ringlet-style hair positioned beside a bearded man wearing a tall helmet, possibly serving as a study for a literary or historical composition. The work is part of an album containing 406 drawings created during Chinnery’s time in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, originally including 93 drawings by the artist. Chinnery, who lived from 1774 to 1852, established himself as a prominent portrait artist in British India before relocating to Macau in 1825.
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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