About Jin Liying
Lived 1772 – 1807 (aged 34–35). Jin Liying was a Chinese painter and poet.
Jin Liying (; – ) was a Chinese painter. She is regarded as one of the best female painters of the High Qing era.
Jin Liying was born in in Shanyin, now part of Shaoxing. She was raised in a gentry family in Kuaiji (now also part of Shaoxing) and was taught Confucian and Buddhist classics. At the age of 22, she became the second wife of poet and painter Wang Tan (王曇).
Her paintings depict landscapes, portraits, still lifes, flowers, and Buddhist religious subjects, including dozens of images of Guanyin. A devout Mahāyāna Buddhist, she painted an elaborate hanging scroll of Guanyin in 1803 to commemorate her Bodhisattva vows. She was a successful professional painter and her work was sought after not only in China, but also in Japan and Korea.
Jin Liying died in 1807 at the age of 36.
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Who was Jin Liying?
Chinese painter
When was Jin Liying born?
Jin Liying was born in 1772 in Shaoxing.
When did Jin Liying die?
Jin Liying died in 1807.
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Jin Liying was a painter and poet.
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Jin Liying was Chinese.
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