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WU SHIXIAN (1845-1916)
Original name Qingyun, courtesy name Shixian, sorbriquet Pomo
daoren, a native of Shangyuan (now Nanjing), Jiangsu Province, Wu
Shixian made a successful living as a painter in Shanghai. Like many
of his contemporaries, Wu Shixian started to paint by learning from the
Orthodox School painters of the early Qing Dynasty, he later went to
study in Japan, where he learned the Japanese and western painting
skills. Upon returning to Shanghai, he began to infuse techniques of
perspective and light into his ink composition. The refreshing fusion
in portraying landscapes and figures along misty mountains and
rivers, brought him instant fame among Guangdong businessmen in
Shanghai, who were evidently more open-minded to novelty.

Wu Shixian was a member of the then influential painting society
Pinghua shuhua she, and was regarded as one of the “Nine Friends
of Pinghua”, together with Wu Dacheng, Gu Yun, Hu Gongshou, Qian
Hui’an, Ni Tian, Wu Qiunong, Jin Xinlan and Lu Hui.

吳石僊（1845-1916）
名慶雲，字石僊，以字行，號潑墨道人。江蘇上元（今南京）人，流
寓上海。亦曾負笈東洋，引進西畫之法。楊逸於《海上墨林》記載「
工山水，略參西畫，獨得秘法，丘壑幽奇，窅然深遠。人物屋宇，點
綴如真。畫夏山雨景，渲染雲氣之法，莫窺真妙」，又謂「畫甚投
時， 商尤深喜之」。
早年參加滬上著名畫會「萍花書畫社」，與吳愙齋、顧若波、胡公
壽、錢慧安、倪墨耕、吳秋農、金心蘭、陸廉夫並稱「萍花九友」。

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