Wang Yiting

He was originally from Wuxing in Zhejiang Province, although spent most of his life in the city of Shanghai where he was a successful businessman-banker.

Wang Zhen was a master calligrapher as well as a painter of flowers, birds, personages and Buddhist subjects.

He was closely associated with and considered the disciple of the painter Wu Changshuo.

Wang Zhen's paintings enjoy a considerable popularity in Japan where he had made many trips in his business and artistic career.

The Japanese reading of his courtesy name is Oh Ittei (おう いってい).

Wang Yiting
Flowers 1931, Nantoyōsō Collection, Japan
Tang Poem Calligraphy, Nantoyōsō Collection, Japan