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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Seated Chinese men is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts two sketches by George Chinnery: one showing a group of four Chinese men, and another featuring a single man holding a bowl to his chin. Part of a volume containing 486 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal, the work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 Chinnery drawings. Chinnery, a British artist active in India and China from 1802 to 1852, specialized in portraits and landscapes, with his later years spent in Macau where he documented both Western and Chinese figures, including Tanka boatwomen.
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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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