Author: Arts Council Scottish Committee
Title: George Chinnery 1774 - 1852
Description: London. Arts Council Gallery. 1957. First edition. Octavo. Softcover. Very good. 28 Pages, 8 black and white photographs. Chinnery was an English painter who spent most of his life in Asia, especially India and southern China. Other than artistic value, his paintings are historically valuable as he was the only western painter resident in South China between the early and mid 19th century. He vividly depicted the life of ordinary people and the landscape of the Pearl River Delta at that period.

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