Zhou Wenjing was a famed Chinese

Chinese people

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 imperial painter in Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

. His birth and death dates are unknown, but he was active until some time after 1463..

Zhou, pseudonym Sanshan(三山）, was a native of Hexian (now Putian

Putian

Putian is a prefecture-level city in eastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders Fuzhou City to the north, Quanzhou City to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east.-Administration:...

) in Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

 province. He was skillful at landscape painting and followed in the style of Xia Gui

Xia Gui

Xia Gui was a Chinese landscape painter of the Song Dynasty. Very little is known about his life, and only a few of his works survive, but he is generally considered one of China's greatest artists. He continued the tradition of Li Tang, further simplifying the earlier Song style to achieve a...

. He enjoyed the patronage of the elderly Xie Huan

Xie Huan

Xie Huan was a Chinese painter of the early Ming Dynasty. He is best known for his painting of domestic settings, story-theme artwork, and landscape paintings.The famous Chinese painter Shen Zhou admired his artwork, and collected art pieces by Xie Huan....

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