| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - After serving as a missionary and then foreign advisor to Qing officials from 1887 to 1911, Canadian American John Ferguson became a leading dealer of Chinese art, providing the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and other museums with their inaugural collections of paintings and bronzes, and donating 1,000 objects???paintings, bronzes, rubbings, and other artifacts???to Nanj
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