London.- George Chinnery is one of the British artists most neglected in his native country. Whilst there have been substantial exhibitions of his work in Lisbon (1995), Tokyo (1996), Hong Kong (2005) and recently in Macau (2010), there has been no public exhibition in Britain since the Arts Council show in 1957, and prior to that a retrospective at the Tate in 1932. Therefore the forthcoming exhibition, “The Flamboyant Mr Chinnery (1774-1852): An English Artist in India and China”, on view at Asia House in London through January 21st, 2012 is long overdue and promises to surprise and delight the visitor. Among British artists Chinnery is a most unusual case. He spent the last fifty years of his life in India and on the China coast, where he died and lies buried, and almost all his best work was done in the East.