'Hubert Vos: Court Painter to the Empress Dowager Cixi' by John Seed is featured in the Jan/Feb 2015 issue of 'Arts of Asia'
Now, really, I was struck very
strongly by her appearance…Erect with a tremendous will power, more than I have
ever seen in a human being. Hard, firm will and thinking lines, and with all
that a brow full of kindness and love for the beautiful. I fell straight in
love with her.
- Hubert Vos, writing about the Empress Dowager Cixi from Peking, June 28, 1905
Hubert Vos (1855-1935)