清 任頤 松鶴圖 軸, Cranes, Pine Tree, and Lichen, Ren Yi, dated 1885

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清 任頤 松鶴圖 軸, Cranes, Pine Tree, and Lichen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1885, China, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 57 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Ren Yi (Ren Bonian) (Chinese, 1840–1896), Ren Yi, the son of a rice merchant, was trained in a portrait shop. Ren developed a popular richly colored style for figures and for flower-and-bird and landscape paintings, becoming a leading artist in Shanghai by the 1870s, with a large circle of eminent friends and students, such as the literatus Wu Changshi (1844–1927

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