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An Kyon [cha Gado, Tuksu; ho Hyondong-ja, Chugyong]
(b ?Sosan, South Ch’ungch’ong Province, c. 1400; d 1464–70). Korean painter. During the reign of King Sejong (1418–50) he was promoted from the sixth rank in the Bureau of Painting to the fourth rank. This was the first time an artist had been promoted to such a high rank in a period when artists were not allowed to advance beyond the lower sixth rank, an indication of the esteem in which An Kyon was held as a painter. The influence of An Kyon and his followers may be seen in Japanese ink landscape paintings of the Muromachi period (1333–1568; see JAPAN, §VI, 4(iii)).
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