Zhou Wenjing
Illustration — Landscape (山水圖), ink and color on silk, National Palace Museum, Taipei Zhou Wenjing was a Chinese imperial painter during the Ming Dynasty. His birth and death dates are unknown, but he was active until some time after 1463. Zhou, pseudonym Sanshan, was a native of Hexian (now Putian) in Fujian province.
Zhou Wenjing
Attributed to Dai Jin · http: tech2.npm.gov.tw/cheschool/zh-tw/index.aspx?content=c_2_24 · Public domain
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- China · Ming dynasty
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- painter
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- landscape
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He was skillful at landscape painting and followed in the style of Xia Gui. He enjoyed the patronage of the elderly Xie Huan.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Work by Zhou Wenjing is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Palace Museum and Shanghai Museum.
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