晚清至本世纪初中国油画肖像从一开始就受雇干两项工作:为宫廷王族画像和赚钱。后一项工作开始干清乾嘉年间,前一项工作则要更早一些。两者的劳动主体完全不一样,前者多为西洋的天主教传教士,后者则是最早去欧美学习油画的中国画家,如关作霖、关乔昌等。在早期的油画肖像上,我们可以发现很多有趣的事情。比如,这两类工作的主体是互换的:在前者,劳动主体是隐匿的,被画面上的帝王 Late Qing Dynasty to the beginning of this century, China’s oil painting portraits from the very beginning were hired to do two jobs: the portrait of royal court and make money. After a work began dry Ching Chia-year, the previous work will have to be earlier. The two main bodies of labor are completely different. The former are mostly Western Catholic missionaries, while the latter are the first Chinese painters to study oil painting in Europe and the United States, such as Guan Zuolin and Guan Qiaochang. In the early portrait of oil painting, we can find a lot of interesting things. For example, the main body of these two types of work is interchangeable: in the former, the main body of work is hidden,