Zhao Mengjian

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhao.

Zhao Mengjian (Chinese: 趙孟堅; Wade–Giles: Chao Meng-chien; 1199–1295),^[1] art name Yizhai (彝齋居士), was a thirteenth-century Chinese painter from Haiyan, Zhejiang.

He was a member of the Song dynasty who attained high rank at court as a Mandarin, and became president of the Hanlin Academy, retiring when the dynasty fell. He was known for his depictions of daffodils, plum blossom, orchids and bamboo.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Also romanized as Tchao Mong-Kien
↑ (Dictionnaire Bénézit 1999, p. 884)
↑ (Yang Xin, Richard M. Barnhart, Nie Chongzheng, James Cahill, Lang Shaojun, Wu Hung 1997, p. 140)

Bibliography

Dictionnaire Bénézit (1999), Dictionnaire des peintres,sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs (in French), 14 (éditions Gründ ed.), 884, ISBN 2700030249 .
Yang Xin, Richard M. Barnhart, Nie Chongzheng, James Cahill, Lang Shaojun, Wu Hung (1997), Three thousand years of Chinese painting, New Haven: Yale, 140, 141, 144, ISBN 0300070136
Hearn, Maxwell K. (2008). "Zhao Mengjian". How to read Chinese paintings. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 70. ISBN 1588392813. Retrieved 17 November 2014.

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