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Hua Yan

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Hua Yan simplified Chinese: 华嵒; traditional Chinese: 華嵒; pinyin: Huà Yán; Wade–Giles: Hua Yen; courtesy name Qiu Yue (秋岳), sobriquets Xinluo Shanren (新罗山人), Dong Yuan Sheng (东园生), Buyi Sheng (布衣生), Ligou Jushi (离垢居士)and Bosha Daoren (白沙道人) was a Chinese painter during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Shanghang (上杭) Fujian province and lived in Yangzhou and later in Hangzhou. Yan's work is within the tradition of the Yangzhou school and is often named as one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.

Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (8)

Man with Staff by a Stream

1746 · Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

149.9 × 54.7 cm (59 × 21 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo

1745 · Album leaf; ink and light color on paper

Album, closed: 15.4 x 18.5 x 3.1 cm (6 1/16 x 7 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Each painting: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Children Playing Blindman's Buff in a Garden

1745 · Album leaf; ink and light color on paper

Album, closed: 15.4 x 18.5 x 3.1 cm (6 1/16 x 7 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Each painting: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Album of Landscape Painting Illustrating Old Poems

1745 · Album of twelve leaves; ink and light color on paper

Album, closed: 15.4 x 18.5 x 3.1 cm (6 1/16 x 7 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Each painting: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Holding a Horse

1745 · Album leaf; ink and light color on paper

Album, closed: 15.4 x 18.5 x 3.1 cm (6 1/16 x 7 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Each painting: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Scholar at a Table with a Servant aside Preparing the Ink

1745 · Album leaf; ink and light color on paper

Album, closed: 15.4 x 18.5 x 3.1 cm (6 1/16 x 7 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Each painting: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Conversation in Autumn

1732 · Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

Overall: 218.5 x 71.7 cm (86 x 28 1/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Layered Peaks and Splashing Waterfall: Portrait of Hua Yan as a Young Man

1705 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Painting: 130 x 47.2 cm (51 3/16 x 18 9/16 in.); Overall: 281 x 95 cm (110 5/8 x 37 3/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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8 published of 8 catalogued · 8 with image

Cleveland Museum of Art
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Art Institute Chicago
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7 entries · 1 sources

Layered Peaks and Splashing Waterfall: Portrait of Hua Yan as a Young Man
1705 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo
1745 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Children Playing Blindman's Buff in a Garden
1745 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Album of Landscape Painting Illustrating Old Poems
1745 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Holding a Horse
1745 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Conversation in Autumn
1732 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Scholar at a Table with a Servant aside Preparing the Ink
1745 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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