(b Changshu, Jiangsu Province, 1269; d Changshu, 1354). Chinese painter. He was designated one of the Four Masters of the Yuan, together with NI ZAN, WU ZHEN and WANG MENG. Born into a family named Lu, he was orphaned when very young. The impoverished Lu family had him adopted when he was seven or eight by a Mr Huang of Yongjia, Zhejiang Province, who was living in Changshu at the time. Since Huang was about 90 years old and without male offspring, the names Huang Gongwang and Zijiu were chosen, which together mean ‘Mr Huang has desired a son for a long time’.

• Huang Gongwang
  • China, §V, 1(ii): Painting: Song to Qing
  • China, §V, 3(iii): Painting themes: Daoist
  • China, §V, 3(iv)(a): Landscape painting: Historical development
  • China, §V, 4(ii): Literati painters and institutions
  • Orthodoxy
  • collaboration
    • Ni Zan
  • groups and movements
    • Poetry and painting
    • Southern school
    • Wang Meng
  • patrons and collectors
    • Wang (ii): (1) Wang Shimin
    • Wu Li
  • works
    • China, §IV, 2(vi)(b): Calligraphy: Middle Ming
    • Japan, §VI, 4(vi)(d): Late foreign-influenced painting: Nanga
    • Yuan dynasty
  • writings
    • China, §V, 3(iv)(b): Landscape painting: Theoretical writings