THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
GEORGE CHINNERY (1774-1852)

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GEORGE CHINNERY (1774-1852)

Thatched Huts in India with Figures and Animals

both inscribed in the artist's shorthand, one dated 12.1818 and the other dated 17.1820, both pencil
2 x 6½in. (10 x 16.5cm) (2)
Provenance
By descent from the artist's family

Lot Essay

George Chinnery spent the years 1802-1825 working in India where he became the leading portrait painter of his time and developed an unrivalled skill in depicting the Indian landscape in oils and watercolours or pencil sketches such as these

one illustrated

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