Mr. Chen had two younger cousins who had built up quite a reputation as portrait artists and photographers; and as Chen Li-hung, who in occupied Taiwan was attending a Japanese home economics school for girls, was both interested in and good at drawing and painting, Mr. Chen encouraged his daughter to study with his cousins.
陳父有二個堂弟從事畫像、拍照的工作，頗具名氣；加上日據時代在台灣就讀日本女子家教學校的陳麗鴻，也具繪畫的興趣和才能，便鼓勵女兒跟著學。