Patrick Conner

George Chinnery 1744-1852 (Könyv)

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After a promising early career in England and Ireland, he spent the rest of his long life in the Far East – twenty-three years in India, and twenty-seven on the China coast, where he lies buried. Untouched by the changing fashions of nineteenth century England, Chinnery’s art retained the spirit of the 1790s, when the rising star was Sir Thomas Lawrence, and the young J.M.W. Turner was his close contemporary at the Royal Academy Schools.Chinnery became the leading artist of British India in the early 1800s, esteemed equally for his artistic bravura and for his flamboyant personality. To escape his creditors, he sailed in 1825 to the China coast, where he received commissions from the wealthy and cosmopolitan trading community.This book represents the first thorough study of Chinnery’s life and work; it also presents a vivid picture of life in the remote outposts of European empires – Madras, Calcutta, Canton, Macau and Hong Kong.

Chinnery’s career is observed within the context of the all-powerful East India Company, and the thriving trading world of the China coast. The hookah, the opium pipe, the bungalow, the palanquin and the ayah are all elements in the society which Chinnery enjoyed and so compellingly portrayed.Making use of much hitherto unpublished material, Patrick Conner has written a comprehensive and readable account of this extraordinarily prolific and talented artist.

Patrick Conner: George Chinnery 1744-1852 könyv ára: 36 045 Ft