Deng Erya

• Deng Erya was born in Dongguan, Guangdong. He is a fourth son of Deng Lianshang. He learned seal-engraving when he was 8-year-old and he also learned seal carving when he was in elementary school. After he was back in Guangdong, he saw Hung Muhu’s seal carving and started learning making stamps. Around his 40s, he went to Japan to learn literature and after he went back to Guagdong, he learned gold stone and calligraphy. He has rich collection. The most valuable one is “Kuangzhanruo Instrument” in the last year of Ming dynasty.

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  • Zhao Shuru

    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”.

  • Deng Sanmu

    Deng Sanmu was born in Shanghai. His calligraphy was excellent in all four scripts: regular script, cursive script, clerical script, and seal script. His style of calligraphy was magnificent, and also he was good at seal carving.