Chinese Portrait Painter.—A Chinese will copy European drawings with, the nicest exactness, though in all his own lie sets perspective at defiance. They are excellent at taking likenesses, which indeed they preserve with unlucky accuracy. When a person, who wished to look better on canvas than he did in a looking-glass, found fault with, a Chinese painter that his portrait was not handsome, he replied, " iNo hab got handsome face, how can hab handsome picture ?" They order these things better in England!
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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 17, 8 June 1872, Page 2
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