Gong Xian

Wikioo.org - The Encyclopedia of Fine Arts - Artist, Painter  Gong Xian

Born: 1610

Death: 1689

Biography:

Gong Xian (simplified Chinese: 龚贤 traditional Chinese: 龔賢 pinyin: Gōng Xián Wade–Giles: Kung Hsien) (1618–1689 some sources give his birth year as early as 1617 or as late as 1620 born in Kunshan, Jiangsu) was a Chinese painter, the most important of the Eight Masters of Nanjing and the leading painter of the Nanjing school. Primarily a landscape p...

Wikipedia link: Click Here