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Sun Hu
Qing court painter from Jiangsu who served the Qianlong court and co-painted the Qing Court Version of the Qingming scroll in 1736
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 Sun You
Sun Hu, from Jiangsu, was a Qing court painter in the service of the Qianlong emperor who painted figures and landscapes, following Wang Yuanqi in landscape. In 1736 he joined Chen Mei, Jin Kun, Dai Hong and Cheng Zhidao in painting the Qing Court Version of Along the River During the Qingming Festival. With Zhou Kun and Ding Guanpeng he painted the Qing Court Version of Spring Morning in the Han Palace, and he worked with Tang Dai and others on the hanging scroll of Xinfeng; all are in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, which also holds his Pavilions in Autumn Mountains dated 1744. His dates and courtesy names are unknown.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in the early Qianlong reign (dated works 1736-1744)