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Chen Juzhong
Southern Song academy painter of the Jiatai era, known for figures and for horses and riders of the northern peoples
A desk holds an unrolled sheet bearing three bold black ink strokes, with a rack of many brushes above it, a stone ink slab and ink stick, a porcelain bowl, a red lacquer box, a dish of red seal paste and a paperweight; a small seated figure shows through a round window onto bamboo.
Also known as Painter-in-Attendance Chen
Chen Juzhong was a painter-in-attendance at the Southern Song painting academy in the Jiatai era (1201-1204) under Emperor Ningzong; his home and life are almost unrecorded. The Tuhui baojian says he specialised in figures and in horses and riders of the northern peoples, and that his settings and colouring could stand beside those of Huang Zongdao of the Xuanhe era. Song and Yuan sources say very little about him, and works under his name are mostly recorded from the Ming onward. The hanging scroll Lady Wenji Returning to Han in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was long attributed to him, though many scholars now doubt it; Four Goats is also attributed to him.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; painter-in-attendance at the academy in the Jiatai era (1201–1204)