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I have searched: Painting: English artist, 1800s, in Asia, boats, boatmen, China. I uploaded this image to google and ended up here: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_(ship) 

The term ultimately stems from the Chinese chuán (船, "boat; ship"), also based on and pronounced as [dzuːŋ] (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chûn) in the Min Nan variant of Chinese, or zhōu (舟), the old word for a sailing vessel.^{[citation needed]} It entered the English language in the 17th century through the Portuguese junco from the Javanese jong.^[3][4] The modern Standard Chinese word for an ocean-going wooden cargo vessel is cáo (艚).^[5]

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