Ma Wan; was a Chinese

China

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 landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Dynasty

The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was a ruling dynasty founded by the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, who ruled most of present-day China, all of modern Mongolia and its surrounding areas, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368. It is considered both as a division of the Mongol Empire and as an...

 (1271–1368). His specific dates of birth and death are not known.

Ma was born in Jiangning

Jiankang

Jiankang was the capital city of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Southern Dynasties. Its walls are extant ruins in the modern municipal region of Nanjing.-History:...

 (江宁 - present day Nanjing

Nanjing

' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...

) and later lived in Songjiang. His style name was 'Wenbi' (文璧) and his pseudonyms were 'Lu dunsheng' (鲁钝生) and 'Guan yuanren' (灌园人). He was taught by Yang Weizhen

Yang Weizhen

Yáng Wéizhēn ; ca. was a Chinese painter and calligrapher during the Yuan Dynasty .Yang was born in the Zhejiang province. His style name was 'Lianfu' and his sobriquet was 'Tieya'...

. Ma's landscape painting followed the style of Huang Gongwang

Huang Gongwang

Huáng Gōngwàng was a painter born during the late Song Dynasty in Changshu, Jiangsu. He is the oldest of the "four great masters of the Yuan." After serving as an official he acted as a Taoist priest. He spent his last years in the Fu-ch'un mountains near Hangzhou devoting himself to Taoism. It...

, utilizing a clear and faint touch.