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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Two drawings of a Chinese barber and customer is a 6 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery made two drawings of a Chinese barber cutting a customer’s hair in the 1840s. They show the same scene twice, with the barber’s hand on the seated man’s head. The pair feels like a little story in two frames. This work sits inside the Romanticism movement, which often focused on everyday life and emotion. Chinnery lived in China and India, so his scenes give us a slice of daily life far from Europe. Look up George Chinnery next.
Two drawings by George Chinnery depict a barber standing with one hand on the head of a seated customer, included in a volume of 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The drawings are part of an album of 93 works by Chinnery, bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange. 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. His subjects included both Western merchants and local figures such as Chinese hong merchants and 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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