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The Flamboyant Mr Chinnery: An English Artist in India and China

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At his best, George Chinnery was a splendid artist. For a living he painted portraits of swaggering lieutenants, hoary governors and their beribboned wives, American sea-captains, and Chinese and Parsi merchants. George Chinnery immersed himself in these Asian cultures and his drawings and watercolours of local people and their daily activities are regarded by many as his most compelling work: crowded market scenes, fishermen landing on the beach, blacksmiths working at their bellows, gamblers playing in the street, boat-people making makeshift shelters, junks at anchor on a calm evening. This exhibition, the first of Chinnery’s work in London for over 50 years, comprises some 100 works showing Chinnery’s range, from oils and watercolours to landscapes and portraits, with a special emphasis on his vivid and deceptively simple watercolours, and his fluent drawings of the people going about their everyday lives. Also included are a group of his self-portraits, presenting ‘the ugliest man on the China coast’, as he regarded himself, at varying ages and in contrasting states of mind. Over 100 paintings and drawings are reproduced in outstanding quality and show his work to the best advantage. The book also places his work in context and includes works by his contempories.

 

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At his best, George Chinnery was a splendid artist. For a living he painted portraits of swaggering lieutenants, hoary governors and their beribboned wives, American sea-captains, and Chinese and Parsi merchants. George Chinnery immersed himself in these Asian cultures and his drawings and watercolours of local people and their daily activities are regarded by many as his most compelling work: crowded market scenes, fishermen landing on the beach, blacksmiths working at their bellows, gamblers playing in the street, boat-people making makeshift shelters, junks at anchor on a calm evening. This exhibition, the first of Chinnery’s work in London for over 50 years, comprises some 100 works showing Chinnery’s range, from oils and watercolours to landscapes and portraits, with a special emphasis on his vivid and deceptively simple watercolours, and his fluent drawings of the people going about their everyday lives. Also included are a group of his self-portraits, presenting ‘the ugliest man on the China coast’, as he regarded himself, at varying ages and in contrasting states of mind. Over 100 paintings and drawings are reproduced in outstanding quality and show his work to the best advantage. The book also places his work in context and includes works by his contempories.

 

Publisher: River Books

Paperback

2012

ISBN: 9786167339122

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