Yan Wen-gui (English name)

Japanese: 燕文貴 - えんぶんき（英語表記）Yan Wen-gui

A court painter in the early Northern Zong Dynasty. Born in Wuxing (Zhejiang Province). As he was said to be "a humble man of the Jianghai", he was a former soldier from Jiangnan, and during the reign of Taizong, he was recommended by Gao Yi and became a tutor at the Painting Academy. His style is thought to be a hybrid of northern China, which dominated landscape painting at the time, and southern China, where he was born, and this suggests the direction of later court landscape painting styles. His known work, View of the Jiangshan Tower (Osaka Municipal Museum of Art), skillfully depicts the passing of a storm as the scroll unfolds, suggesting his meticulous and varied painting style that was called "the Yan family's landscapes".

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Japanese:

北宗前期の宮廷画家。呉興 (浙江省) の人。「江海の微賤」といわれるように，江南出身の元兵士で，太宗のとき，高益の推挙で画院祗候となった。画風は当時の山水画を主導した華北と，出身地華南の折衷様式であったと考えられ，それはのちの宮廷山水画様式の方向を示唆するものであった。伝称作品『江山楼観図巻』 (大阪市立美術館) は嵐雨の一過するさまを画巻の展開にそって巧みに表わしており，「燕家の景致」と称された細緻で変化に富んだ画法をうかがわせる。

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