en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chua_Mia_Tee

The error here is the spouse’s name. Credible Singapore art sources identify Chua Mia Tee’s wife as Lee Boon Ngan, not “Lee Boo Ngan.”

For example, The Private Museum’s 2025 exhibition page is titled “The Art of Lee Boon Ngan: Celebrating 60 Years of Singapore through the Love of Chua Mia Tee & Lee Boon Ngan” and its artist biography section states “Lee Boon Ngan (1939–2017, Singapore)”. National Gallery Singapore also has a collection page for Chua’s 1957 work “Portrait of Lee Boon Ngan.”

So this sentence should use Lee Boon Ngan as the spouse’s name.

This description does not match how the work is identified by Singapore’s own museum and heritage institutions.

National Gallery Singapore’s audio guide for National Language Class says: “In this painting, a group of Chinese students learning Malay are huddled around a single table…” The National Heritage Board’s Roots article likewise states: “National Language Class depicts a group of Chinese students learning Malay, the newly-designated national language of Singapore.”

So the painting is officially described as a scene of Chinese students learning Malay, rather than “Singaporeans of different ethnicities learning Malay.”