Indian Landscape with Temple

Date: c.1815
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA
Dimensions: 20.5 x 24.1

Prevailing color of this fine art print is green and its shape is landscape. Original size is 20.5 x 24.1. This art piece is located in Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

George Chinnery (1774-1852) was an English artist who spent most of his life in India and China. His older brother committed large-scale fraud and fled to Spain. This tarnished Chinnery’s reputation, and therefore he went to Ireland, where he could paint in peace. At the beginning of the 19th century, he returned to London with his wife and two children, but in less than a year he travelled away aboard the Gilwell to Calcutta. There, he became a Freemason. This membership also brought him certain advantages for his artistic life. In India, he painted the families of British colonists and in China, he focused on portraits businessmen and also the simple life - Chinese Players. In 1846, he visited Hong Kong, but there he suffered from poor health. He died six years later. A collection of his Classical paintings can be found in London in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art and others.