A BLACKSMITH AND OTHER STUDIES pencil, pen and brown ink dated December 7.1850 lower centre; variously inscribed with annotations throughout the sheet; numbered 52 upper right 29.5 x 21cm; 11 1/2 x 8 1/4in 49.5 x 40cm; 19 1/2 x 15 3/4in (framed) Property from a Private Collection Provenance: Thomas Agnew and Sons, London Born in London where he was a student at the Royal Academy Schools, Chinnery spent five years in Ireland before departing for Asia in 1802 where he journeyed to Serampore in West Bengal via Madras, Calcutta and Dacca. Dodging his debts, some twenty years later he arrived in Macau and made the island his home until his death in 1852. Fascinated by the artistic possibilities of Macau's shoreline and the local tradespeople he was an inveterate recorder of everyday life, as evident in the present very full page of annotated sketches. Sheet stuck down at the corners
A BLACKSMITH AND OTHER STUDIES pencil, pen and brown ink dated December 7.1850 lower centre; variously inscribed with annotations throughout the sheet; numbered 52 upper right 29.5 x 21cm; 11 1/2 x 8 1/4in 49.5 x 40cm; 19 1/2 x 15 3/4in (framed) Property from a Private Collection Provenance: Thomas Agnew and Sons, London Born in London where he was a student at the Royal Academy Schools, Chinnery spent five years in Ireland before departing for Asia in 1802 where he journeyed to Serampore in West Bengal via Madras, Calcutta and Dacca. Dodging his debts, some twenty years later he arrived in Macau and made the island his home until his death in 1852. Fascinated by the artistic possibilities of Macau's shoreline and the local tradespeople he was an inveterate recorder of everyday life, as evident in the present very full page of annotated sketches. Sheet stuck down at the corners
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