Jin Dynasty (265 - 420)
- Gu Kaizhi (ca. 344-406) - founder of traditional Chinese painting
Sui Dynasty (581-618)
- Zhan Ziqian (-)
Tang Dynasty (618 - 907)
- Yan Liben (600-673)
- Li Sixun (653-718)
- Wang Wei (701-761) - poet, musician, painter and statesman
- Han Gan (706-783) - paintings of horses
- Zhang Xuan (713-755)
- Han Huang (723-787) - paintings of the Five Bulls
- Zhou Fang (730-800)
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907 - 960)
- Guan Tong (907-923)
- Li Cheng (919-967) - landscape paintings with diluted ink
- Dong Yuan (934-962)
- Juran (-)
- Shi Ke (-)
Song Dynasty (960-1279)
"The Golden Era of Chinese Painting"
- Northern Song (960-1127)
- Fan Kuan (990–1020)
- Yi Yuanji (1000-1064) - paintings of animals
- Wang Ximeng (1096-1119)
- Southern Song (1127-1279)
- Li Tang (1050–1130)
- Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145)
- Ma Yuan (ca1160–1225) - landscape scrolls
- Liu Songnian (1174-1224)
- Xia Gui (1195–1224) - landscapes
The Four Great Painters in the Southern Song Dynasty were Li Tang, Liu Songnian, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui
Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
- Huang Gongwang - (1269-1354)
- Wu Zhen - (1280-1354)
- Ni Zan (1301-1374) - river landscapes
- Wang Meng - (ca 1308 – 1385)
The Four Great Masters of the Yuan Dynasty were: Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, Ni Zan and Wang Meng.
Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644)
- Chen Hongshou (1598-1652) - human figures, landscapes, flower-and-bird
- Chen Chun (1483-1544) - landscapes
- Dai Jin (1388-1462) landscapes and animal paintings
- Dong Qichang (1555–1636) - landscapes
- Gong Xian ((1618-1689) - landscape/mountains
- Hong Ren (1610-1663)
- Qiu Ying (1494? - 1552)
- Shen Zhou (1427–1509) - landscapes/flowers
- Tang Yin (1470-1524) - famous painter, poet and calligrapher
- Wen Zhengming (1470–1559)
- Xie Huan (ca 1370–1452)
- Xu Wei - (1521—1593) - painter, poet and dramatist
- Zhou Chen (1460-1535)
The Four Great Masters of the Ming Dynasty were: Qiu Ying, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin.
Qing Dynasty(1644 – 1911)
- Bada Shanren (ca. 1626—1705)
- Shitao (1642 - 1707)
- Yu Zhiding (1647-1709) - landscapes, birds,flowers
- Leng Mei (1677-1742) - human figures, court ladies
- Jin Nong (1687-1764) - paintings of flowers,bamboo
- Wang Shishen (1686-1759) - paintings of plum blossoms
- Zheng Xie (1693-1765)
- Wu Changshuo (1844-1927) - flowers,birds
Republic China (1911-1928)
People's Republic of China (from 1949)
- Qi Baishi (1864-1957)
- Chen Shizeng (1876-1923)
- Wang Zhen (1867-1938) - flowers, birds
- Xu Beihong (1895-1953) - Chinese ink paintings
- Pan Tianshou (1897-1971)
- Feng Zikai (1898 - 1975)
- Zhang Daqian (1899-1983)
- Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) - one of the most important Chinese artists of last century
- Li Keran 1907-1989)
- Chen Yifei (1946-2005) - painter of the cultural revolution
- Wu Guanzhong (1919-)
- Most expensive Chinese paintings
- Most expensive paintings sold worldwide
- Art academies in China
- Beijing art galleries
- Shanghai art galleries
- Hong Kong art galleries
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