Yang Borun

1837-1911 Chinese

Shanghai School landscape painter and poet

Yang Borun(楊伯潤), born Yang Peifu, was a well-known Chinese poet, calligrapher, and painter of the Shanghai School. Yang was born to a scholarly family in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, he arrived in Shanghai in the early 1860s. Yang sold his paintings, mostly landscapes, to support the family. Some of them are in the collections of museums in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Cleveland. A book of Yang"s poetry is held at the Harvard University Yenching Library. Samples of his calligraphy have been published in Japan.