Dr Patrick Conner was Keeper of Fine Art at the Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton, and then Director of the Martyn Gregory Gallery, London. He is currently a Research Fellow at the V&A Museum. His books include Oriental Architecture in the West (1979); George Chinnery, artist of India and the China coast (1993), The Hongs of Canton - Western Merchants in South China 1700-1900 (2009), and Paintings of the China Trade (2013). He curated the loan exhibitions ‘William Alexander, an English artist in Imperial China’ (1981), ‘The China Trade 1600-1860’ (1986), and ‘The Flamboyant Mr Chinnery’ (2011-12).