This is a Chinese name; the family name is 陈 (Chen)

Chen Hongshou (Chinese: 陈洪绶 pinyin:Chén Hóngshòu) (1598 - 1652) was a Chinese painter of late Ming Dynasty. Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell and yin means sound. The most common variant of pinyin in use is called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme...

Born in Zhuji, Zhejiang, he became fond of painting when he was a child. He used to learn the skill of painting from Lan Ying. He had a chance to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing where he could access and copy hundreds of paintings by great painting masters of all times collected by the royal family. With the end of Mind Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, he converted to a Buddhist monk, and lived on selling his paintings.

He is most famous for personality paintings, print paintings and illustration of books. His style of paintings on figure subjects is “curious but reasonable”. He refused to paint for nobleman and dignitaries of Qing Dynasty, but would give his works to poor people for free.

His style of painting had great influence to a number of latter-day painters including Ren Yi.

His works are kept in museums and galleries all over the world including these in U.S.A.:

“Returning Home” Honolulu Academy of Arts
“Immortals Celebrating a Birthday” Indianapolis Museum of Art
“Lady Xuanwen Jun Giving Instructions on the Classics” Cleveland Museum of Art
“Master Laozi on the Back of Ox” Cleveland Museum of Art
“The Mountain of the Five Cataracts” Cleveland Museum of Art
“The Dragon King Revering the Buddha” Freer Gallery of Art
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