Wang Shimin
Painter, Visual Artist
1592 – 1680
Who was Wang Shimin?
Wáng Shímǐn was a Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty.
Born in the Kiangsu province, Wang grew up in an artistic, scholarly environment. His grandfather was a prime minister in the late Ming dynasty, and his father was a Hanlin Academy editor for the court, who had studied with Tung Ch'i-ch'ang. After learning painting and calligraphy at a young age, Wang worked as a government official. However he fell ill due to exhaustion on a trip to Nanking in 1630. Wang returned to his homeland and immersed himself in art, creating numerous works. Wang's works place him in an elevated group known as the Four Wangs, also part of the Six Masters of the early Qing period.
Wang painted After Wang Wei's "Snow Over Rivers and Mountains", which can be viewed at the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
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- Born
- 1592
Taicang - Also known as
- 王时敏
- Nationality
- China
- Profession
- Lived in
- Taicang
- Died
- 1680
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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