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| Keywords: Lan Ying - Pine Tree, White Hawk, and Rock - Walters 356.jpg Lan Ying was one of the most important and prolific painters of the 17th century He became known as the last master of the Zhe Che school As a professional painter who was born in Zhejiang Che-chiang province this was a logical way to classify him but he studied Northern Song Sung and Yuan Yüan Dynasty models so assiduously that there is little of the Southern Song Sung wet-brush manner characteristic of the Zhe Che school evident in his paintings In 1664 Lan Ying was seventy-nine years old Other than this hanging scroll his latest recorded painting dates from 1660 four years earlier The elderly artist is known to have been in Peking in the early 1660s where in 1662 the Kangxi emperor came to the throne; perhaps this painting was executed there 1664 ink and color on silk mounted on paper cm 150 5 88 6 accession number 35 6 1577 Liu Sung-pu Shanghai date and mode of acquisition unknown Panama-Pacific International Exposition China Pavilion San Francisco 1915 no 21 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1915 Inscription upper right; Seal upper right; Date place of origin China Walters Art Museum license 2D Paintings from China Chinese paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Lan Ying | ||||
