Hu Shunchen
Precise Song landscape painter
Hu Shunchen(胡舜臣) was a painter active from the late Northern Song to the early Southern Song period. During the Xuanhe years (1119-1125), he served as a court painter, and during the Jiayan and Shaoxing years of the Southern Song (1127-1162), he returned to the painting academy. He was good at landscape painting. He followed the style of Guo Xi(郭熙), was precise in his brushwork, and studied alongside Zhang Zhu(张著), Zhang Jia(张浃), and Gu Liang(顾亮). He excelled at painting landscapes, especially with meticulous techniques. "Seeing Off Hao Xuanming on His Mission to Qin" is his representative surviving work, now held at the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts in Japan, though scholars have confirmed it’s actually a Ming dynasty forgery. During the Xining years of the Northern Song (1068), he also created landscape murals for Jueyuan Temple, which, along with Shen Liao’s calligraphy, were praised as the 'Three Perfections.'