Xu Cao

• Xu Cao, courtesy name is Yansun, was born in Beijing. Famous Chinese portrait painter from Shenxuan, Hebei. He was good at painting portrait, maid, sketch and so on, had a lot of followers.

• relevant artists

  • Shao Zhang

  • Gong Yuankai

  • Hu Peiheng

    Hu Peiheng (胡佩衡) is a painter from Hebei, China, known for his expertise in landscape painting (山水画). His works are characterized by a sense of vastness and depth, reflecting a style that lies between the works of Zhong Gui (仲圭) and Huang He (黃鶴). He is also a member of the China Artists Association (中国美术家协会).

  • Xia Suntong

  • Wang Xuetao

    Wang Xueteo, courtesy name was Xiao Feng, art name was Chi Yuan, born in Cheng’an Hebei, a well-known Chinese modern freehand bird-and-flower painter. He served as director of the Beijing Painting Institute, director of the China Artists Association, vice president of the Beijing Branch of Artists Association, representative of the Beijing City Seventh National People’s Congress, managing member of the Beijing Fifth China People’s Political Consultative Conference, member of the Central Union Committee of the Democratic Party of China, commissioner of Beijing city.

  • Xing Duan

  • Ma Jin

  • Pu Jin

    Pu Jin (1893-1966), of the Manchu ethnic group, with the surname Aisin Gioro, courtesy name Xuezhai, and pen names Nanshi, Suiyuan, Leshan, Songfeng Zhuren, and Qintu, was born in Beijing. His art names were Yiqingtang and Songfeng Caotang. Influenced by his family, he studied calligraphy and painting from a young age.

  • Yan Bolong

    Yan Bolong, a Manchu from the Plain Yellow Banner, was a native of Beijing. His given name was Yunlin, his courtesy name was Bolong (used as his common name), and his pseudonym was Changbai Buyi (Long White Cloth Scholar). He resided in a place called Chuncao Tang (Spring Grass Hall). During the Republic of China period, Yan was a prominent figure in the Beijing-Tianjin painting school, renowned for his bird-and-flower paintings. He was also skilled in landscapes, figures, feathers, and animals. Yan disliked officialdom and preferred to live as an ordinary scholar, devoting himself to painting. Due to his ancestral roots in Changbai, he became known as Changbai Buyi (Long White Cloth Scholar).

  • Pu Zuo

    During his lifetime, Wang Chengxi served as a Professor in the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, a Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and a Member of the Tianjin Committee of the CPPCC.

  • Shen Zesheng

  • Wang Rong

    Wang Liu, Chinese characters meaning "Shin Sheng" and his family name meaning "Manichuan villager", was originally from Wei County, Anhui Province. He was a student in Lanxi, Zhejiang Province when he was young, and later lived by painting maritime paintings and charcoal drawings, teaching at Beijing Hua Fine Arts School, Beijing Fu-Jen University Fine Arts Department, and Beijing Normal University from 1934. During the Republic of China period, he became as famous as Chen Hanting and Wang Xuetao.