Zhang Wo
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Zhang Wo courtesy name as Shuhou, sobriquet as Zhenqisheng and Jianghaike, is a famed Chinese
Chinese people
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 painter who was active 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...

. His specific birth and death years are not known.

Zhang was born in Hangzhou
Hangzhou
Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...

 in the Zhejiang
Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...

 province. His style name was 'Zhong Chun' and his sobriquet
Sobriquet
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 was 'Mi Gong'. Zhang's painting followed the fluent and pure style of Li Gonglin
Li Gonglin
Li Gonglin , style name Boshi , pseudonym Longmian Jushi , was a Chinese painter, civil officer and archaeologist in the Northern Song Dynasty....

. Zhang specialized in painting human figures.
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