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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Western woman with a child on her knee is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, depicting Breastfeeding, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing from 1825 of a Western mother feeding her child. George Chinnery made it in Macau while traveling through Asia. The drawing was likely a warm-up for a painted portrait later. It shows a quiet, tender moment between mother and child. The artist worked in Macau, a place where different cultures met in the 1800s. Look up the artist George Chinnery next.
A woman is seated at the end of a sofa, with a curtain partially visible behind her; on her lap sits a child, who turns toward the viewer while placing one arm around the woman’s waist. The drawing, possibly a preparatory study for an oil painting, depicts a Western mother and child in Macau. It was later bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of Chinnery’s drawings. George Chinnery (1774–1852), a British artist, spent much of his career in India before settling in Macau in 1825, where he continued to work until his death.
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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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