_Chao Meng-fu_, also called _Ts[)u]-ang_. Born in 1254. Man of
letters, painter and calligraphist. He was a great landscape
painter and in the first rank as a painter of horses.
_Ch'ien Hsuean_, also called _Ch'ien Shun-chue_, lived at the end of the
thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth century. He painted
figures, landscape, flowers and birds. He employed the style and
methods of the Sung dynasty.
_Yen Hui_ lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. His
paintings were numerous and indicate a master of the first order.
He painted many Buddhist and Taoist subjects.
_Huang Kung-wang._ Fourteenth century. At first influenced by the style
of Tung Yuean and Chue Jan, he later acquired an individual style and
was one of the great founders of schools in the Yuean period.
_Ni Tsan_, also called Yuen-lin (1301-1374). Man of letters,
calligraphist, collector of books and paintings. He is considered
to be one of the greatest painters of his time.