Charles Leong, Painter

The World

(New York)

June 2, 1899

Gaiety in Quaint Cathay.

The First Chinese Fair Ever Held in New York

Is Opened with a Crash of Gongs.

Portraits by a Chinese Artist.

Included in the Food Exhibit Are Canned

Frogs, Bean Jam and Preserved Insects.

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…A Chinese painter, Charles Leong, who, it was said, had studied at the Academy of Design, exhibited a portrait of Admiral Dewey and another of Li Hung Chang….

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