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George Chinnery (Chinese name: ; January 5, 1774 – May 30, 1852) was an English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 who spent most of his life in Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, especially India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 and southern China.

Chinnery was born in London
London

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 and after training in England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 became a famous portrait painter in Ireland
Ireland

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 by 1802.






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George Chinnery (Chinese name: ; January 5, 1774 – May 30, 1852) was an English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 who spent most of his life in Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, especially India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 and southern China.

Chinnery, Indian Herdsman On A Bank
Chinnery was born in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 and after training in England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 became a famous portrait painter in Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 by 1802. He married his wife Marianne on 19 April, 1799 in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
. His father owned several trading ships and his elder brother, William Chinnery, owned what is now Gilwell Park
Gilwell Park

Gilwell Park is a campsite and Scout Activity Centre for Scouting groups, as well as a training and conference centre for Scout Leaders. The 44 hectare site is in Sewardstonebury, Epping Forest , close to Chingford, London....
. He was a close friend of the artist, William Armfield Hobday
William Armfield Hobday

Biography William Armfield Hobday was a portrait painter and miniaturist. He was the son of Samuel Hobday , a rich Birmingham spoon manufacturer....
.

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
Lam Qua

Lam Qua , or real name, Guan Qiaochang or Kwan Kiu Cheong was a Western-trained Chinese painter from Guangdong Province of Qing Dynasty China....
, who eventually became a renowned medical portrait painter. He travelled around the Pearl River Delta
Pearl River Delta

The Pearl River Delta in southern People's Republic of China is the low-lying areas alongside the Pearl River estuary where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea....
, between Macau
Macau

The Macau Special Administrative Region, , commonly known as Macau or Macao , is one of the two special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong....
 and Canton (now Guangzhou
Guangzhou

'Guangzhou' is the Capital and a sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province of China in the northern and southern China part of the People's Republic of China....
). He had been to Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 after the British founded the city, and subsequently fell ill. He died in Macau in 1852 and is buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery
Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau

The Old Protestant Cemetery , located close to the Casa Garden, was established by the British East India Company in 1821 in Macau in response to a lack of burial sites for Protestants in the Roman Catholic Portugal Portuguese Empire....
 there.

Works

Other than artistic value, his paintings are historically valuable as he was the only western painter in South China
South China

South China or Southern China can refer to* South China Athletic Association - a sports club in Hong Kong First Division League* 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 learnt shorthand
Shorthand

Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed or brevity of writing as compared to a normal method of writing a language....
 from his grandfather and he used his modified shorthand for jotting quick notes on sketches.

Legacy

  • The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has a collection of Chinnery's works because of his connection to Hong Kong. The bank together with Hong Kong Museum of History
    Hong Kong Museum of History

    The Hong Kong Museum of History is a museum which preserves Hong Kong's historical and cultural heritage. It is located next to the Hong Kong Science Museum....
     and Hong Kong Museum of Art
    Hong Kong Museum of Art

    The Hong Kong Museum of Art is a museum for Chinese cultural heritage, and local and international art in Hong Kong. The museum was established as the City Hall Museum and Art Gallery in the City Hall, Hong Kong in Central, Hong Kong by the Urban Council in 1962....
     jointly held an exhibition in the museum of history from 6 June to 29 August 2005.


See also

  • Mandy Boursicot