Ju Lian

Chinese painter

Ju Lian (Chinese: 居廉; pinyin: Jū Lián; Wade–Giles: Chü Lien; 1828–1904), a native of Panyu (番禺, now Guangzhou, was a Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty. His courtesy name was 'Ancient Spring' (Gu Quan 古泉), and self-given pseudonym 'Old Man of the Divided Mountain' (Ge Shan Lao Ren 隔山老人). He was the younger brother (or cousin) of the painter Ju Chao.^[1]^[2] He was known for his bird-and-flower paintings as well as people and plant-and-insect paintings. He was the teacher of the brothers Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng.^[3]

Notes

^ Cihai: Page 1073.
^ "Qing Dynasty paintings to go on show". Archived from the original on April 17, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
^ Barnhart: Pages 304-305.

References

Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会). Ci hai (辞海). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (上海辞书出版社), 1979.
Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07013-6