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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Five drawings of female heads is a 10 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery made five drawings of women’s heads in mid-March 1847. They’re head-and-shoulders portraits, mostly straight on, with one in profile and one wearing a bonnet. Each sheet has notes about his planned “stages” for drawing faces. He wrote down steps he wanted artists to follow when sketching portraits. The lines show careful planning behind each face. You can see the pencil work clearly on each sheet. Look up the technique called stippling next.
Five head-and-shoulder portraits by George Chinnery depict Western women, including one in profile and another wearing a bonnet, accompanied by detailed notes outlining his proposed stages for portraiture. The drawings are part of a 406-piece volume created during his time in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. They were bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album containing 93 of Chinnery’s works.
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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