Wang E
Illustration — Auspicious Snow, National Palace Museum Wang E (1465? – 1545) was an imperial landscape painter during the Ming dynasty. Wang E, style name 'Tingzhi' (廷直), was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang. He studied under Xiao Feng and later he served the Hongzhi Emperor.
Wang E
Wang E · http: tech2.npm.gov.tw/cheschool/zh-tw/index.aspx?content=d_2_46 · Public domain
- Born
- 1465 · Fenghua.
- Died
- 1545
- Nationality
- Ming dynasty
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- landscape
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The emperor praised him as the Ma Yuan of his day (今之馬遠). Among the paintings of his that can be definitively dated, two were for Japanese envoys. He later retired to teaching and died at age 80.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Work by Wang E is recorded in the collections of Princeton Art Museum, The Palace Museum and National Palace Museum.
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Wang E lived from 1462 to 1541 and was a painter. The birth of Wang E is recorded in 1462 in Zhejiang, and the death in 1541.
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