Min Zhen
Illustration — Toad Wizard (蛤蟆仙人图), Private Collection, Japan Min Min Zhen (1730–?; courtesy name Zheng Zhai 正齋) was a Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, who spent most of his life in Hubei. He was noted for painting human figures and doing occasional finger painting. He was orphaned at an early age and is sometimes associated with the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.
Min Zhen
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- Born
- 1730 · Nanchang.
- Died
- 1788 · Yangzhou.
- Nationality
- Qing dynasty
- Occupation
- painter
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Illustration — Toad Wizard (蛤蟆仙人图), Private Collection, Japan Min Min Zhen (1730–?; courtesy name Zheng Zhai 正齋) was a Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, who spent most of his life in Hubei. He was noted for painting human figures and doing occasional finger painting. He was orphaned at an early age and is sometimes associated with the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.
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Born at Nanchang in 1730, died in Yangzhou in 1788.
Work by Min Zhen is recorded in the collections of Ashmolean Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Palace Museum, Princeton Art Museum and Shanghai Museum.
Elephant, Horse, and Hare, 1788, by Min Zhen
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Su Wu the Shepherd, 1788, by Min Zhen
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1730
Min Zhen born at Nanchang.
1788
Min Zhen died at Yangzhou.
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