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scroll dated equivalent to 1695. ink md strong in the work of the "Six Great Masters of the Early Ch'ing
colour on paper. ch-.ngDyna.ty.
Dynasty," that is, the Four Wangs, Wu Li, and Yun Shou-ping.
The earliest of the four was Wang Shih-min (1 592-1680) who had
learned to paint from the hand of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang himself. Like
his master, he deeply admired the broad, relaxed manner of
Huang Kung-wang, and his great series of landscapes in the man-
ner of the Yuan recluse, painted in his seventies, are among the
noblest achievements of the Ch'ing literati. Wang Chien (1598-
1677), his close friend and pupil, was an even more conscientious
follower of the Yuan masters. More gifted was Wang Hui (1632-
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