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The Sketchbooks of a 19th Century Painter Who Fled to Asia
George Chinnery (1774-1852) was born in London and studied alongside J.M. William Turner at the Royal Academy of Art. He was a brilliant artist but a terrible manager of money which led him to escape to Asia, first to India, then Hong Kong and finally Macau, where he settled as a draftsman and as an official portrait painter of the British aristocracy in Asia. He used a sketchbook to draw every day and, in this talk, we will be looking at those drawings to learn from them.
Mário Linhares
Mário Linhares likes to link art with community projects. In drawing, he enjoys embedding influences from the masters of the past and learning how those methods and techniques can be used nowadays. Linhares has a B.A. in Design, an M.A. in Visual Arts Education and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, with specialty in Drawing. A professor in Lisbon, he belongs to the Fine Arts Research Center and Studies at the University of Lisbon. Linhares started Urban Sketchers Portugal in 2009, joined the international executive board in 2011 and served as the nonprofit’s education director until 2019. Linhares is the author of several books, articles and essays, contributes drawings to exhibitions and delivers lectures worldwide.
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