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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Monte Fort, Macau is a 14 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew Monte Fort, Macau in 1834 on paper. It’s a Romanticism work held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The scene shows the fort on its hill with village houses down below. This drawing comes from a British artist who lived in Macau for years. Chinnery often sketched the area’s landscapes and people. Search for another George Chinnery drawing next.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts Monte Fort in Macau rising above village houses in the foreground, part of an album containing 93 sketches made in Macau and its vicinity. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, including works by Chinnery, who lived in Macau from 1825 until his death in 1852 after earlier years as a portrait artist in India.
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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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