While the study and research towards Western Painting was interrupted at the Technology Art School by Ernest Fenollosa, in contrast, the Department of Western Painting had not been established for a long time in Tokyo Fine Arts School, a school which was founded later, based on the will of Fenollosa and Tenshin OKAKURA.
工部美術学校がアーネスト・フェノロサらによって西洋美術学習・研究の発展を妨害され、後発の東京美術学校もフェノロサや岡倉天心の意向によりながらく西洋画科が置かれなかったのとは対照的である。