Yu Zhiding
Illustration — Yu Zhiding - Portrait of Zhu Yizun Yu Zhiding (Yü Chih-ting, traditional: 禹之鼎, simplified: 禹之鼎); ca. (1647–1709) was a Chinese painter during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). Yu was a native of Jiangdu (present-day Yangzhou) in Jiangsu province.
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Yu Zhiding
Yu Zhiding · https: minghuaji.dpm.org.cn/paint/detail?id=23bd5ea3b0a24879946a8a7b4020232a · Public domain
- Born
- 1647 · Xinghua.
- Died
- 1709 · Beijing.
- Nationality
- Qing dynasty
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- figure painting · portrait · shinü painting · baimiao
- Teachers
- Lan Ying
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Illustration — Yu Zhiding - Portrait of Zhu Yizun Yu Zhiding (Yü Chih-ting, traditional: 禹之鼎, simplified: 禹之鼎); ca. (1647–1709) was a Chinese painter during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). Yu was a native of Jiangdu (present-day Yangzhou) in Jiangsu province.
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Born at Xinghua in 1647, died in Beijing in 1709.
Training under Lan Ying is recorded. The field of work recorded is figure painting, portrait and shinü painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Work by Yu Zhiding is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Cleveland Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Palace Museum and Shanghai Museum.
Cleansing Medicinal Herbs in the Stream on a Spring Day, 1703, by Yu Zhiding
Yu Zhiding · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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1647
Yu Zhiding born at Xinghua.
1709
Yu Zhiding died at Beijing.
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