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Chen Ruyan [Ch’en Ju-yen; zi Weiyun; hao Qiushui, Xiaohu]
(b Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, ?1331; d 1371). Chinese painter and scholar. He grew up in the Lake Tai region of Jiangsu Province, the area around which literati artists of the Yuan (1279–1368) and early Ming (1368–1644) periods were active. The Yuan dynasty was in decline, attended by political turmoil and military strife, and Chen served in military and civil positions first under the rebel leader Zhang Shicheng and then under Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder and first emperor (Hongwu, reg 1368–98) of the Ming dynasty. Chen’s painting career spanned barely two decades; he was not prolific, but his small corpus of extant works presents a well-focused image of the range and style and expression available to a scholar–painter in the Suzhou area from the late 1350s to the early 1370s.
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