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Wang Ximeng

Type Figure Region China Time 1096–1119 Also known as Ximeng

Wang Ximeng (1096–c.1119) was a student of the Northern Song Huizong's painting academy who, at eighteen in 1113, painted the monumental blue-green l…

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  1. 1096–1112Kaifeng · Dongjing Kaifeng PrefectureWang Ximeng entered the Hanlin Painting Academy of the Northern Song as a student in his youth. Cai Jing's colophon states that he 'was formerly a student in painting studies', and he received direct instruction from Emperor Huizong, Zhao Ji, in brushwork and coloring techniques.
  2. 1113–1119Kaifeng · Dongjing Kaifeng PrefectureIn the intercalary fourth month of the third year of Zhenghe, the eighteen-year-old Wang Ximeng presented a long scroll of blue-green landscape painting; Huizong bestowed it on Cai Jing for a colophon, and it became known as A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains. He died young soon afterward, and very few other works can be reliably attributed to him.

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