About Yang Borun
Lived 1837 – 1911 (aged 73–74). Yang Borun was a Chinese painter and poet.
Yang Borun (, 1837–1911), born Yang Peifu (杨佩夫), was a well-known Chinese poet, calligrapher, and painter of the Shanghai School.
Yang was born to a scholarly family in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, he arrived in Shanghai in the early 1860s. Yang sold his paintings, mostly landscapes, to support the family. Some of them are in the collections of museums in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Cleveland. A book of Yang's poetry is held at the Harvard University Yenching Library. Samples of his calligraphy have been published in Japan.
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Who was Yang Borun?
Chinese poet and artist (1837-1911)
When was Yang Borun born?
Yang Borun was born in 1837.
When did Yang Borun die?
Yang Borun died in 1911.
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Yang Borun was a painter and poet.
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Yang Borun was Chinese.
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