Bold brushstrokes of change

British artist George Chinnery (1774-1852) traveled around the world and led a life of extravagance and recklessness.

Heavily indebted, the opium addict and son of a member of the British East India Company, fled from India to Macao in 1825.

Chinnery may have never expected to remain in Macao till his death in 1852 and is remembered for introducing Western oil and watercolor art to China.