The paintings are done in traditional Chinese watercolors on paper. We do not know how they were originally mounted, or if they were mounted as scrolls or fixed portraits. But apparently soon after ...

Portrait of a Chinese Man, c1853. Courtesy: Oakland Museum of California A year later Yee Ah Tye was indeed dumped in the lock-up, this time for assault and grand larceny. Originally from ...

Luo Zhongli is a contemporary Chinese painter known for his portraits of laborers in rural parts of his country. His best-known work is Father (1980), an empathetic portrait of a wrinkled elderly man ...

A Chinese painter who keeps his face hidden behind a mask to remain anonymous organized the first exhibition in Tokyo of his ink and wash portraits ... of Shanghai, the man published his works ...