Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 27 MARCH 2024

100 104 ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE CHINNERY RHA (1774 – 1852) Portrait of a Girl, Believed to be Mary Barbara Constable, Holding a Sun Bonnet Filled with Flowers Oil on board 61 x 48.2cm (24 x 19”) With label verso inscribed ‘G.Chinnery. Mary Constable’ Provenance: With Rosie Black, 1975; later with Irish Art Partners. € 3,000 - 5,000 George Chinnery was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He moved in 1796 to Ireland, where he enjoyed some success as an artist, and married Marianne Vigne on 19 April 1799 in Dublin. Chinnery returned to London in 1801 without his wife and two infant children and in 1801 sailed to Madras, where he established himself as a painter and subsequently in Calcutta, where he became the leading artist of the British community in India. From 1825 until his death in 1852 Chinnery based himself in Macau where he painted many portraits of visiting sea-captains, Chinese and Western merchants, and their families resident there.