At his best, George Chinnery was a splendid artist. For a living he painted portraits of swaggering lieutenants, hoary governors and their beribboned wives, Ame

This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics, interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors, designers and ta

Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely ti

Chinnery, a portrait and landscape painter who often worked in miniature, left Britain at the age of 28 and spent the last 50 years of his life in India and on

Augustus Earle (1793–1838) was born to travel and to paint. Living in the era before photography, Earle was one of the world’s most irrepressible travel art