Wang Meng

Chinese painter
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Wade-Giles romanization:
Wang Meng
Born:
1308, Wuxing [now Huzhou], Zhejiang province, China
Died:
1385 (aged 77)

Wang Meng (born 1308, Wuxing [now Huzhou], Zhejiang province, China—died 1385) was a Chinese painter who is placed among the group later known as the Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty (1206–1368), although, being in the second generation of that group, he had a more personal style that was less based upon the emulation of ancient masters. Wang was a grandson of another famous Yuan dynasty painter, Zhao Mengfu, whose wife (Guan Daosheng, Wang’s grandmother) was also a painter. Wang served in a minor capacity in the governments of both the Yuan and the Ming but was linked (erroneously, it ...(100 of 210 words)