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A bearded Chinese man
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George Chinnery, R.H.A. (1774-1852)
A bearded Chinese man
numbered '17' on the reverse, indistinctly inscribed on the stretcher
oil on canvas
5 x 4in. (12.7 x 10.3cm.)
A bearded Chinese man
numbered '17' on the reverse, indistinctly inscribed on the stretcher
oil on canvas
5 x 4in. (12.7 x 10.3cm.)
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Provenance: These three oils by George Chinnery were probably acquired by the great-great-great grandfather of the vendor, William G. Robertson (born 1802), who worked for Jardine and Matheson from the 1830s and is mentioned by Maurice Collis in his book 'Foreign Mud' - a history of the company. His great-grandson F. Longueville (of a Welsh Marches family) was recorded in the 1940s as owning two pictures of early Jardine and Matheson opium clippers (the 'Sylph' and 'Red Rover') by family repute also by Chinnery.