Emperors, literary figures or simple villagers: Chinese portrait painters depicted people from all walks of life. Artworks spanning five centuries are now on display in Europe for the first time.

Portraiture of the senior family members, made while they were alive or based on descriptions and imaginations, constituted an important part of classic Chinese figure paintings. The Chinese ...

Of art's many subjective roles, purposes, ... 17th-Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection" is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through Dec. 4, 2016.

Visitors look on exhibits during the Chinese portrait painting exhibition "Faces of China, Portrait Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1912)" in Berlin, capital of Germany, on Oct. 11, 2017 ...

The National Portrait Gallery celebrates the late Chinese American painter in “Portraits of Promised Lands” ...

He has been studying Chinese painting for more than 40 years, and is known for his Chinese ink monkey paintings.[File photo] This year marks the Year of the Monkey according to the Chinese calendar.

The paintings were commissioned by a Chinese emperor and had remained in the Far East for almost 200 years until they were acquired by a British army major.

RARE 18th century Imperial Chinese paintings discovered in a Dorset home have been sold for almost £400,000. The paintings by renowned Qing dynasty court painter Jiang Tingxi (1669–1732), were ...