Zhao Mengjian

Zhao Mengjian: Three Friends of Winter

Zhao Mengjian (Chinese: 趙孟堅; Wade–Giles: Chao Meng-chien; 1199–1295),^[1] art name Yizhai (彝齋居士), was a thirteenth-century Chinese painter from Haiyan, Zhejiang.

He was a member of the Song dynasty who attained high rank at court as a Mandarin, and became president of the Hanlin Academy, retiring when the dynasty fell. He was known for his depictions of daffodils, plum blossom, orchids and bamboo.^[2][3]

References

1. Also romanized as Tchao Mong-Kien
2. (Dictionnaire Bénézit 1999, p. 884)
3. (Yang Xin, Richard M. Barnhart, Nie Chongzheng, James Cahill, Lang Shaojun, Wu Hung 1997, p. 140)

Bibliography

• Dictionnaire Bénézit (1999), Dictionnaire des peintres,sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs (in French) 14 (éditions Gründ ed.), 884, ISBN 2700030249.
• Yang Xin, Richard M. Barnhart, Nie Chongzheng, James Cahill, Lang Shaojun, Wu Hung (1997), Three thousand years of Chinese painting, New Haven: Yale, 140, 141, 144, ISBN 0300070136
• Hearn, Maxwell K. (2008). "Zhao Mengjian". How to read Chinese paintings. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 70. ISBN 1588392813. Retrieved 17 November 2014.