History Today, September 1st, 2000
Luke S.K Kwong tells the story of the American artist who was invited to paint the portrait of the celebrated Empress Dowager of China after the Boxer Rising.
WHEN THE PAINTER HUBERT VOS arrived in China in 1905, he was no wide-eyed, first-time traveller: he had been there before. In 1899, fuelled by the desire to capture different racial types on canvas, he embarked on a voyage that took him to the Dutch East Indies, British Malaysia and, before reaching Korea and Japan further to the north, China.
Born in Maastricht, Holland, in 1855, Vos had studied art in Brussels, Paris, and Rome befo...
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