Gong Xian was a Chinese painter in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, one of the Eight Masters of Nanjing (Jinling) and the leading painter of the ...

Gong Xian fled Nanjing when the city fell to the Manchus in 1645, and during this chaotic period, several members of his family perished.

Gong Xian (born c. 1618, Kunshan, Jiangsu province, China—died 1689) was the most important artist of the group known as the Eight Masters of Nanjing.

Departing from his densely textured, monumental landscape style of the 1660s, Gong moved toward a sparser manner in which each brushstroke is made to function ...

Gong County or Gongxian is a county located in southern Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of Yibin city.

Artist. Gong Xian (1618 – 1689) ; Artist's birth. Kunshan, Jiangsu province, China 1618 ; Culture. Chinese ; Date. c. 1650 ; Period. Qing dynasty (1644–1911).

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper. Landscape after Wang Meng, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1680

Gong Xian was born in the Jiangsu province of China around 1619. He was very well educated and self-taught as an artist; he studied under the guidance of Dong ...

An artist who used landscape as a way to process the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty.