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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Portrait head of a Chinese woman is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a Chinese woman, probably a boatwoman, drawn in profile. The artist used simple pencil lines to capture her tilted head and quiet presence. It’s a small sheet, but the marks feel alive. Chinnery worked in Macau during the 1820s–1850s. He liked drawing local people and places, not just grand scenes. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts the inclined head of a Chinese woman, likely a boatwoman, included in a volume of 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The work was part of an album of 93 drawings by Chinnery, bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist and landscape painter 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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