Dai Xi

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Dai Xi (戴熙)-was a prominent official and painter from a scholarly family in Hangzhou. Although he did much of his work in Guangzhou. He was known for an orthodox style of landscape that hearkened to earlier eras. He intended to retire from official work in the 1850s, but later accepted a commanded to save his city from the Taiping Army. When the Taiping took the city he became despondent and committed suicide.

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• Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford(37) Oxford ISBN 1-85444-132-9
• China On site