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Yi Ha-ung
(b Seoul, 1820; d Seoul, 1898). Korean prince regent, calligrapher and painter. When his second son acceded to the throne in 1863 as King Kojong (reg 1863–1907) he became Taewongun (‘Prince regent’). He excelled in calligraphy and ink paintings of orchids. His early work shows the influence of KIM CHONG-HUI, who praised Yi Ha-ung’s ink orchid paintings as the best by a painter of his generation. In 1873 Yi Ha-ung retired from the regency and concentrated on calligraphy and painting. By his late fifties he had developed his own individual style of painting orchids in ink. He depicted the orchids against a plain background, making them long and thin, with razor-sharp tips. This style of representing orchids was adopted by such artists as Pang Yun-myong, Na Su-yon and Kim Ung-won, and was very popular during the late Choson period (1392–1910) and at the beginning of the Japanese colonial period (1910–45).
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