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HUANG YINGCHEN (17TH CENTURY)
TENGWANG PAVILION
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk
157 x 45.5 cm. (61 3/4 x 17 7/8 in.)
Entitled and signed: Huang Yingchen, with two seals of the artist: Shou Min, Huang Ying Chen Yin
Dated gengxu year (1670)
Two collectors' seals: Li Qing Fu Jun Yi Wu; Jing Shou Shu Jia Shou Cang
Note: Huang Yingchen was a native of Beijing. His sobriquet names were Jingyi and Jian'an. He was good at both painting and calligraphy, excelling particularly in figures, children, and ghostly figures. In the fourteenth year of the Shunzhi era (1657), his skills were noted by the emperor and he was ordered into court to be a painter there. For brief biographies, see Zhongguo Meishujia Renming Cidian, Shanghai Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 1981, p.1167; Nie Chongzheng in Court Painting of the Qing Dynasty, Cultural Relics Publishing House, Beijing, 1992, p.7
TENGWANG PAVILION
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk
157 x 45.5 cm. (61 3/4 x 17 7/8 in.)
Entitled and signed: Huang Yingchen, with two seals of the artist: Shou Min, Huang Ying Chen Yin
Dated gengxu year (1670)
Two collectors' seals: Li Qing Fu Jun Yi Wu; Jing Shou Shu Jia Shou Cang
Note: Huang Yingchen was a native of Beijing. His sobriquet names were Jingyi and Jian'an. He was good at both painting and calligraphy, excelling particularly in figures, children, and ghostly figures. In the fourteenth year of the Shunzhi era (1657), his skills were noted by the emperor and he was ordered into court to be a painter there. For brief biographies, see Zhongguo Meishujia Renming Cidian, Shanghai Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 1981, p.1167; Nie Chongzheng in Court Painting of the Qing Dynasty, Cultural Relics Publishing House, Beijing, 1992, p.7