(b Wuxing, Zheji?ng Province, 1289; d c. 1364). Son of (1) Zhao Mengfu. Because of his father's high position at the court of the Mongol Yuan dynasty, Zhao Yong was early given an official position and continued to serve as an official throughout his life, eventually as a military commander in Wuxing. He probably died during the last years of the Yuan period (1279-1368), when a number of rebel armies contended with one another for control in the area of his command. Strongly influenced by his father, he was an accomplished painter of many subjects popular with masters of the early Yuan period, including landscape, horses, figures, palaces, and birds and flowers, and he was occasionally summoned to the Yuan court to paint.
Part of the Zhao family
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