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 "Sheet of Studies: Hands and Group of Oriental Figures by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Indian Landscape with Temple, c.1815 by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Portrait of John Reeves by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "The Praya Grande, Macao, from the South, with St Peter")
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.jpg "Coast Scene with Fishermen and Buildings, Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Rocks and a Hill Convent, China by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Coolies Reading a Proclamation, Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Trees on a Hillside Path by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "View of Macao, China by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Coast Scene with Figures near a wall by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Riverside Encampment, China by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1662352).jpg "Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, First Quarter 19th Century by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "How Qua, Head of the Hong Merchants in Canton by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Geisha Girl by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Miniature of 1st Lord Bloomfield in Military Uniform by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Lap House, Inner Harbour, Macau by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Man Carrying Faggots by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Street Scene with Merchants Selling Wares by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Monte Fort, Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Chinese Gamblers by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "An English Family in Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Shipping on a Chinese River by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Man Called W. C. Hunter by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Boat Dwellings, Macao, China by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Ruined Tomb with Hindu Ablutions by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Equestrian Studies of an English Officer by George Chinnery")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1130625).jpg "Self Portrait by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Study for the Portrait of a Military Officer by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Miss ODwyer 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 "Antiquities of Dacca by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Sailor and His Family by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Girl with a Parrot by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Figure Seated by an Indian Temple by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Man Carrying Twigs by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Tanka Boat off Macao by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Admiral Sir Edward Pellew by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Village Scene in India (verso) by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Village Hut in India 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 "A Man Called W. C. Hunter by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Boat with Yellow Sail, China 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 Tomb or Part of a Temple by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Craft on an Indian River by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Gilbert Elliot by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "A Family Group Around a Piano by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Indian Temple, ca. 1808-12 by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Trees by a River by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Chinese Gamblers by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "The Reverend Robert Morrison by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Chinese Father and Child with Dog by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Workers Demolishing a Building by George Chinnery")
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.jpg "Mrs. Whaley died 1798, Isle of Man 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 "A River by George Chinnery")
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