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After a promising early career in England and Ireland, he spent the rest of his long life in the Far East – twenty-three years in India, and twenty-seven on the China coast, where he lies buried. Untouched by the changing fashions of nineteenth century England, Chinnery’s art retained the spirit of the 1790s, when the rising star was Sir Thomas Lawrence, and the young J.M.W. Turner was his close contemporary at the Royal Academy Schools. Chinnery became the leading artist of British India in the early 1800s, esteemed equally for his artistic bravura and for his flamboyant personality. To escape his creditors, he sailed in 1825 to the China coast, where he received commissions from the wealthy and cosmopolitan trading community.