19
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Two figures seated at a stall, and a pig is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a mid-1800s drawing from the Romantic period. It shows two people at a small stall by a boat, plus a pig lounging nearby. The artist captured everyday life with quick, loose lines. The date range in the facts is a bit odd—it covers 27 years but the drawing is from 1825. Maybe the museum grouped his working years. Next, look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts two figures seated at a stall, with one possibly engaged in writing, alongside a pig lying on the ground. Part of an album containing 179 sheets of drawings made in Bengal and Macau, it was bequeathed in 1928 as part of a collection of 93 works by George Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist in India and later settled in Macau in 1825, where he remained until his death in 1852.
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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