Guo Lanxiang

• Guo Lanxiang was born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province with the courtesy name as Watei, Shanchong and the artname as Shosai, Bingdojin. He specialized in poetry, painting, and seal engraving. Guo Si-kun's eldest son. In his early years, he specialized in floral paintings, later landscape paintings, modeled on the Northern and Southern Schools. The flowers he draws are painted in vivid colors. His painting art made great progress by travelling to Suzhou and encountering masters such as Gu He-yi and Wu Chang-shuo.

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    Zhao Shuru(1874-1945) was born in Yinxian (now Ningbo) Zhejiang. Original name was Run Xiang, courtesy name was Xian Chen and Shuru, later he changed his name to Shi Zhe, art name was Ren Chang, in his later years he named himself Ernu Laoren also known as Shu Ru. Late Qing Dynasty, he appointed in a government post named ‘Tong Zhi’ in Fujian Province. After the Republic of China was established, he lived in seclusion in Shanghai. He is good at epigraph, painting and calligraphy, flowers, plants, insects and animals, especially painting horses ,and can be called “the Zhao Mengfu of modern times”.