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Lot description
George Chinnery, British 1774-1852- Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, traditionally identified as Mr Da Silva; oil on canvas, 29.7 x 25 cm. Provenance: The collection of John Quilter (according to a label on the reverse). with the present owner since the 1980s. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 April 2021, lot 435. Note: Another version of this work, formerly with Daniel Hunt Fine Art, identifies the sitter as Antonio Pereira, an opium dealer in Macau (https://www.daniel-huntfineart.com/artworksmanager/2018/7/27/george-chinnery-1774-1852-english). Chinnery travelled to Chennai (Madras) in 1802, and from there to Kolkata (Calcutta), where he established himself as the pre-eminent portraitist of the British community in India, before moving to Macau, where he was based between 1825 until his death in 1852.