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Songyan Qian

Songyan Qian (1898/99 - 1985/86) was active/lived in China.  Songyan Qian is known for Painting.

Qian Songyan, the owner of Qianlu, also known as Songyan, whose house name is Yanshilou from Yixing County, Jiangsu Province. At the age of 8, Qian studied poetry, writing, calligraphy and painting with his father, and began to sketch at the age of 15. He was influenced by Hu Tinglu. He studied traditional painting and was exposed to Western painting techniques. He once taught at Wuxi Art College. In 1957, he was a painter and later dean of the Jiangsu Painting Academy. Songyan Qian is good at landscape painting and calligraphy. He has his own style and is a famous contemporary painter.

Qian Songyan was born in 1899 in Hushu, a small farming village near Yixing in Jiangsu Province. At an early age he developed a strong interest in painting and calligraphy, and explored antique and painting shops in order to study the works inside. During his teenage years he created several works on village life, and garnered the nickname 'the Little Painter'. The foll   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2195 characters.]  Artist bio

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