Cai Weilian

Cai Weilian (; 1904–1940) was a Chinese oil painter and professor.

Early life A young Cai Weilian with parents and siblings in Germany, September 1912. Cai Weilian was born and raised in Shaoxing, Zhejiang; of Chinese philosopher Cai Yuanpei seven children, Weilian was reportedly his favourite. She studied oil painting in both Belgium and France.

Career Cai specialised in modernist oil painting and became a professor at the Hangzhou-based National Academy of Art in 1928.

Later years Cai Weilian married fellow artist Lin Wenzheng and relocated to Kunming, Yunnan. She died after childbirth in 1939.