[3] He was summoned to the imperial court in Beijing after submitting his Album of Lohan in the Baimiao Style in 1757, during the Qianlong Emperor's second southern inspection tour.

[4] Jin Tingbiao specialized in figural and architectural subjects[4] and was famous for his illustrations of historical legends.

[3] He was a prominent member of the Ruyi Institute, the Qing academy of court painters, along with Jiao Bingzhen, Leng Mei, Yu Zhiding, Tang Dai, Yuan Jiang, and Yuan Yao.

[5] After his death in 1767, the Qianlong Emperor ordered his tieluo (貼落; "affixed hanging") paintings from palace walls to be remounted and entered into his personal catalog, the Shiqu baoji.

[6] He also gave Jin a seventh-ranked official title, but it's unclear whether it was made before his death.