A catalogue of the Ashmolean collection of Chinese paintings by Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2000).
Wu Jingting, also known as Xizeng, was born in Beijing and worked there throughout his career. He began studying painting at the age of 17 by imitating the Qing professional painter Wang Hui and other traditional landscape painters. In 1920 he went to Japan for a Sino-Japanese painting exhibition. Before 1949 he taught at the Jinghua College of Fine Arts, and afterwards mainly at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 1958 he was selected as one of the founders of the Beijing Academy of Art. He travelled throughout China, and specialized in landscape painting.
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 137 on p. 160, illus. p. 161 fig. 137
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