Okada Saburōsuke was a Japanese painter in the Yōga style and a professor at the "Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō" ; precursor of the Tokyo University of the Arts.

Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin was a French painter born and raised in Paris, where he became a prominent academic painter and a teacher. He is principally known for the links he created between French and Japanese art, in both painting and ceramics.