10
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Chinese figures, soldiers, and details of hands is a 10 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew quick, lively sketches of Chinese life in the 1840s. He captured men chatting at stalls, soldiers lounging, and even hands doing small tasks like holding a bowl. His paper sheets feel like snapshots—full of motion and everyday moments. You’ll spot a Macanese woman with her servant among the crowd too. Want to see more of his work? Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing features studies of Chinese figures, including soldiers from the Portuguese garrison in Macau, a Macanese woman with her servant, and various hands engaged in activities such as holding a bowl or resting on a table. Part of a volume containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal, it was bequeathed in 1928 as part of an album of 93 works by George Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist in 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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