- George Chinnery
George Chinnery (Chinese name: _zh. 錢納利;
January 5 ,1774 –May 30 ,1852 ) was an English painter who spent most of his life inAsia , especiallyIndia and southern China.Chinnery was born in
London and after training inEngland became a famous portrait painter inIreland by 1802. He married his wife Marianne on19 April ,1799 inDublin . His father owned several trading ships and his elder brother, William Chinnery, owned what is nowGilwell Park .Chinnery ran into debt and went to India in 1802 on a ship named Gilwell. He there re-established himself as a painter, but debt prompted a move again in 1825, when he went to southern China. While in China, he mentored
Lam Qua , who eventually became a renowned medical portrait painter. He travelled around thePearl River Delta , betweenMacau and Canton (nowGuangzhou ). He had been toHong Kong after the British founded the city, and subsequently fell ill. He died in Macau in 1852 and is buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery there.url= http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/12145-popup.html
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Other than artistic value, his paintings are historically valuable as he was the only western painter in
South China between the early and mid 19th century. He presented the life of common people and landscape of the Pearl River delta at that period. Chinnery left sketches for creation of other paintings. He had learntshorthand from his grandfather and he used his modified shorthand for jotting quick notes on sketches.Legacy
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The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has a collection of Chinnery's works because of his connection to Hong Kong. The bank together withHong Kong Museum of History andHong Kong Museum of Art jointly held an exhibition in the museum of history from6 June to29 August 2005 .ee also
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Mandy Boursicot References
* "Impressions of the East - The Art of George Chinnery", Hong Kong Museum of History, 2005
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