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Chinnery travelled to India in 1802 to pursue a career as a portrait painter. One client remarked, however, that 'He likes landscape painting a thousand to one better than portrait painting'. Chinnery moved from Madras to Calcutta in 1807 and made a large number of sketches in a variety of media between then and his leaving India for China in 1825. He excecuted many sketches of Eastern Bengal, concentrating on rural scenes of villagers with their animals, and often portrayed the more humble side to Indian life in contrast to the lives of his English patrons.

George Chinnery (1774-1852)

Bengal village with a goat in the foreground

Details

George Chinnery (1774-1852)
Bengal village with a goat in the foreground
oil on canvas
12¾ x 15½ in. (31.5 x 39.5 cm.)

Exhibited

London, Martyn Gregory, China and the East Indies, 1995, no. 19.

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