Chen Rong (; ca. 1200–1266)Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. . Page 372. Chen Rong's style name was Suoweng (所翁) was a Chinese painter and politician of the Southern

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celebrated for his depictions of dragons. The '' Nine Dragons'' handscroll in the Museum of Fine Arts,

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, United States, bearing a date of 1244, is attributed to Chen. The Five Dragons handscroll in the

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in Kansas City, Missouri, is also attributed to Chen Rong. A longer version of the Five Dragons, also attributed to Chen Rong, is in the Tokyo National Museum. The Eleven Dragons painting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art was formerly attributed to Chen Rong, but now is assigned to the Ming Dynasty period. In March 2017, the Six Dragons handscroll, attributed to Chen Rong, was sold by Osaka's

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at Christie's for almost $49 million."‘My highlight of 2017’ — The Fujita Museum Six Dragons scroll" https://www.christies.com/features/2017-highlight-Fujita-Museum-dragon-scroll-8799-1.aspx

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1200 births 1266 deaths 13th-century Chinese painters Painters from Jiangxi Song dynasty painters Song dynasty politicians from Jiangxi Politicians from Fuzhou, Jiangxi {{China-painter-stub