About Wu Shujuan
Lived 1853 – 1930 (aged 76–77). Wu Shujuan was a Chinese painter.
Wu Shujuan (Chinese:吳淑娟; 1853 – 1930), also known by the art names Xingfen nüshi (杏芬女士) and Xingfen laoren, was a late Qing Dynasty painter.
Wu Shujuan was born in 1853 in She County, Anhui. She was the daughter of Wu Hongxun (吳鴻勛), also known as Wu Zijia (吳子嘉), an advisor to Zeng Guofan (曾國藩) and a skilled painter of bamboo, orchids, flowers, and birds. At the age of fifteen, she married Tang Guangzhao (唐光照), an imperial official and scholar who eventually reached the rank of daotai. Their son Tang Xiong (唐熊) was an accomplished painter and calligrapher.
She and her husband published two books, a catalogue of their personal art collection, Ancient and Modern Paintings (Hudie qiuzhai suozang huace 蝴蜨 秋齋所藏畫, 1882), and a book reproducing Baihua tu (One Hundred Flowers.
The Wu Shujuan crater on Mercury is named for her.
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Who was Wu Shujuan?
late Qing and Republic of China painter
When was Wu Shujuan born?
Wu Shujuan was born in 1853 in She County.
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Wu Shujuan died in 1930.
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Wu Shujuan was a painter.
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Wu Shujuan was Chinese.
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