After GEORGE CHINNERY (1774-1852) The Honorable Sir Henry Russel, Bar t. mezzotint (sight size: 665 x 468mm) by S.W. Reynolds after Chinnery, 'proof' etched lower right. Mounted, framed and glazed. A FINE EARLY IMPRESSION, richly inked and with excellent contrast, of Reynolds' print after Chinnery's ceremonial portrait of Sir Henry Russell (1751-1836), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Bengal. The portrait was amongst Chinnery's early commissions which won him fame in India. Sir Henry summoned Chinnery to paint his portrait in 1807, the year of his appointment, prompted by 'several of the principal natives of the Settlement.. that it might be exhibited in the Town Hall'. According to the diarist William Hickey, Chinnery spent three months painting the portrait, during which time Russell 'allotted to his exclusive use two handsome apartments, and of course considered him one of the family, a cover always being laid for him at the dinner table'. The portrait won high praise from the Government Gazette, 'This production is one of the finest specimens of Mr Chinnery's talents' and was much admired by the Persian Amabassador who visited Sir Henry in 1807, and by the Calcutta establishment. Reynolds' engraved version of the portrait was copied from a smaller replica of the original painting which Chinnery sent to London. See Patrick Conner, George Chinnery , 1993, pp.84-88.
After GEORGE CHINNERY (1774-1852) The Honorable Sir Henry Russel, Bar t. mezzotint (sight size: 665 x 468mm) by S.W. Reynolds after Chinnery, 'proof' etched lower right. Mounted, framed and glazed. A FINE EARLY IMPRESSION, richly inked and with excellent contrast, of Reynolds' print after Chinnery's ceremonial portrait of Sir Henry Russell (1751-1836), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Bengal. The portrait was amongst Chinnery's early commissions which won him fame in India. Sir Henry summoned Chinnery to paint his portrait in 1807, the year of his appointment, prompted by 'several of the principal natives of the Settlement.. that it might be exhibited in the Town Hall'. According to the diarist William Hickey, Chinnery spent three months painting the portrait, during which time Russell 'allotted to his exclusive use two handsome apartments, and of course considered him one of the family, a cover always being laid for him at the dinner table'. The portrait won high praise from the Government Gazette, 'This production is one of the finest specimens of Mr Chinnery's talents' and was much admired by the Persian Amabassador who visited Sir Henry in 1807, and by the Calcutta establishment. Reynolds' engraved version of the portrait was copied from a smaller replica of the original painting which Chinnery sent to London. See Patrick Conner, George Chinnery , 1993, pp.84-88.
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