Portrait of a man in a turban, in three-quarter profile, turned to the left and a subsiduary study of a woman's head

This was one of the last purchases approved by Andrew Wyld. He was very excited by it and believed it to be an important work by the artist.
The fluent but mannered treatment of the man depicted in the present portrait is consistent with the work of George Chinnery in the first decade of the 19th Century. In particular, the face may be compared with that of the seaman in Chinnery's romantic portrait drawing Lieutenant Fleetwood Pellew of 1807 in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (see H. and S. Berry-Hill, George Chinnery 1774-1852, 1963, pl. 26 and P. Conner, George Chinnery 1774-1852, 1993, pl. 33, p. 60.