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When the English painter George Chinnery became 26 years old, he left Europe, never to return to his homeland. Why he took this step is not clear. Born in London in 1774, he grew up in good middle-class circumstances and studied at the Royal Academy. The family idyll was tarnished when his older brother was accused of extensive fraud and he fled abroad. George distanced himself from his family and moved to Dublin. There he achieved his first success as an artist and his income allowed him to marry. Although the young couple quickly had two children, the connection with his wife Marianne was to last only two years. George Chinnery left his wife and children in Ireland and moved back to his native London. Also here he did not last long. After only one year he sailed on board a merchant sailor to the British colonies in India.
He settled in Calcutta and quickly established himself in the English community. He earned his money as a portrait painter and found his own style, which was characterized by exact observation and a great sympathy for the people portrayed. However, there seems to have been a gap between his standard of living and his income, which grew steadily larger. After two decades in India, George Chinnery was so deeply in debt that he had to leave Calcutta and move to Macao in southern China.
The city was a vibrant trading place, which was especially frequented by Portuguese seafarers. Here George Chinnery seemed to find final rest and he stayed until his death in 1852, travelling a lot, making regular trips to Canton and spending much time in neighbouring Hong Kong. Also in Macao he advanced to a portrait painter in great demand. Chinese and Western merchants, their families and passing sea captains were his generous clients. Completely independent of his remarkable artistic achievement, his paintings and drawings are also of extraordinary historical value. For unlike most artists of his era, George Chinnery developed a great interest in the ordinary people around him. He created many drawings of craftsmen, everyday situations and landscapes, which give a vivid impression of life in China at that time.
Today, the artist's extensive oeuvre is distributed around the globe. His works hang in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum in London, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Macao Museum of Art and American museums, among others. The largest private collection is held by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Hong Kong-based subsidiary of the British bank HSBC.
When the English painter George Chinnery became 26 years old, he left Europe, never to return to his homeland. Why he took this step is not clear. Born in London in 1774, he grew up in good middle-class circumstances and studied at the Royal Academy. The family idyll was tarnished when his older brother was accused of extensive fraud and he fled abroad. George distanced himself from his family and moved to Dublin. There he achieved his first success as an artist and his income allowed him to marry. Although the young couple quickly had two children, the connection with his wife Marianne was to last only two years. George Chinnery left his wife and children in Ireland and moved back to his native London. Also here he did not last long. After only one year he sailed on board a merchant sailor to the British colonies in India.
He settled in Calcutta and quickly established himself in the English community. He earned his money as a portrait painter and found his own style, which was characterized by exact observation and a great sympathy for the people portrayed. However, there seems to have been a gap between his standard of living and his income, which grew steadily larger. After two decades in India, George Chinnery was so deeply in debt that he had to leave Calcutta and move to Macao in southern China.
The city was a vibrant trading place, which was especially frequented by Portuguese seafarers. Here George Chinnery seemed to find final rest and he stayed until his death in 1852, travelling a lot, making regular trips to Canton and spending much time in neighbouring Hong Kong. Also in Macao he advanced to a portrait painter in great demand. Chinese and Western merchants, their families and passing sea captains were his generous clients. Completely independent of his remarkable artistic achievement, his paintings and drawings are also of extraordinary historical value. For unlike most artists of his era, George Chinnery developed a great interest in the ordinary people around him. He created many drawings of craftsmen, everyday situations and landscapes, which give a vivid impression of life in China at that time.
Today, the artist's extensive oeuvre is distributed around the globe. His works hang in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum in London, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Macao Museum of Art and American museums, among others. The largest private collection is held by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Hong Kong-based subsidiary of the British bank HSBC.
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.jpg "A Craft on an Indian River by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Mr and Mrs Richmond Thackeray and their son, William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63) 1814 by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Chinese Landscape with Bridge by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man Playing a Guitar by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A View of the Hongs by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-557771).jpg "A Chinese Junk by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Man Carrying Faggots by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Tanka Woman with her Child on a Boat by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1432906).jpg "Josiah Andrew Hudleston (1799-1865) by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-898940).jpg "Coolies Round the Food Vendor")
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.jpg "An Indian Torrent by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Lake with Cattle, China by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "An English Family in Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Old Man and Children Seated, Cooking by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Chinese Peasant by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "View of Macao, China by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "How Qua, Head of the Hong Merchants in Canton by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-593944).jpg "A Man Throwing a Ball to a Dog by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1118525).jpg "Street in Macao, China by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "An English Family in Macao by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1173113).jpg "Portrait of a Nobleman, Thought to be The Earl of Limerick by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "The Praya Grande, Macao, from the South, with St Peter")
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.jpg "Boat with Yellow Sail, China by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "View of Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Lap House, Inner Harbor, Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Geisha Girl by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Portrait of John Reeves by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Pipul Tree by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Rocks and a Hill Convent, China by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Man Carrying Twigs by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "View in Southern India, with a Warrior Outside his Hut by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Bengal Village Scene by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Chinese Boats, 1834 by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Girl with a Parrot by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "British Gunboats and Tanka Egg-Boats at Whampoa, Canton, a Deep Water Anchorage on the China Coast by Ubekendt")
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.jpg "Coolies Reading a Proclamation, Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Bengal Village Scene by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Robert Morrison, engraved by W. Holl, from")
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.jpg "Tanka Boats on the Shore by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "An Elephant by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Mrs. Whaley died 1798, Isle of Man by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1441985).jpg "Building on a Hillside in a Mountainous Village (China?) by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Monte Fort, Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Indian Temple, ca. 1808-12 by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Village Hut in India by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "The Young Huntsman by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "An Unidentified Officer of the 13th Bombay Native Infantry, circa 1824 by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Chinese Gamblers by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Cattle Resting in a Mountainous Landscape, ca. 1808-12 by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "View in Southern India, with a Warrior Outside His Hut by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Village Scene in India (verso) by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1100749).jpg "The Pool by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1130625).jpg "Self Portrait by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Miniature of 1st Lord Bloomfield in Military Uniform by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Riverside Encampment, China by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-566422).jpg "Chow by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Coast Scene with Fishermen and Buildings, Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "The Reverend Robert Morrison by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Coolies Round the Food Vendor")
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.jpg "Ruins of a Temple, Sunset by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Indian Landscape with Temple, c.1815 by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "An Unknown Man by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Chinese Gamblers by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Near Midnapore, Bengal by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Antiquities of Dacca by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Scene at Macao by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1098020).jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Street Scene with Merchants Selling Wares by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Chinese River with a Figure on the Bank by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-897754).jpg "Studies of Indian Cattle by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Goats Beneath a Banana Tree by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Robert Morrison by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Pool with Figures by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Man Called W. C. Hunter by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Miss O")
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.jpg "Miss Louisa Georgiana Murray by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A River by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Indian Landscape with Temple by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Garden in India by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Group of Chinese Eating Outside Church of San Domingo by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Sailor and His Family by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Coast Scene with Figures near a wall by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Tomb or Part of a Temple by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Men Round the Food Vendor’s Stall by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Boat Dwellings, Macao, China by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Lap House, Inner Harbour, Macau by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "An Unknown Man by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Study for the Portrait of a Military Officer by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Ruined Tomb with Hindu Ablutions by George Chinnery")
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