George Chinnery

Literature

Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 111

Provenance

Benjamin Chew Wilcocks, Macau (China) and Philadelphia (until d. 1845)
by descent to his granddaughter, Mrs. Percy Madeira, later Mrs. Campbell Madeira, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia (in 1927)
her niece, Mrs. Benjamin Brannan Reath, Merion, Pennsylvania (sold to Woodhouse)
Dr. Samuel W. Woodhouse Jr., Philadelphia (by 1932d. 1943)
his estate sale, Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, November 15--16, 1943, no. 317, to MMA)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1943
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Iconclass

48B3 Portrait, self-portrait of artist

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 43.132.4

Other works by George Chinnery

Portrait of a lady seated small half-length in a laced bonnet trimmed with pink ribbon

A village scene, Bengal

Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto (1751-1814), Viceroy of British India and Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (1812-14)
1812 - 1847

A Chinese woman seated, wearing flowers in her hair, jade earrings and blue nankeen dress, holding a feather fan, before a moon window, with a view to a Chinese coastal landscape beyond

Portrait of a lady seated small three-quarter length holding a feather fan