October 1838: In Macao with the artist George Chinnery "[William] Jardine was sitting for his portrait but I observed that though his pencil was as true for design as ever, his painting had certainly gone off."
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"[Chinnery's] former faults of exaggerated lights & shades were more prominent than ever & this was especially the case with his painted landscapes." William Prinsep memoirs Vol 3 p116 (there was bad blood, Chinnery had defaulted on his debts to Palmer & Co. where Wm had been a partner
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