Zhou Wenjing

Zhou Wenjing was a Chinese imperial painter during the Ming Dynasty, renowned for his skillful landscape paintings that followed the style of Xia Gui. He served as a court painter in the Beijing imperial palace and was active from approximately 1430 until after 1463, having won a painting competition sponsored by the Xuande emperor. His birth and death dates are unknown, but he was a native of Hexian (now Putian) in Fujian province.