Hyewon

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Hyewon
Hangul: 신윤복
Hanja: 申潤福
Revised Romanization: Sin Yun-bok
McCune-Reischauer: Sin Yun-bok
Pen name
Hangul: 혜원
Hanja: 蕙園
Revised Romanization: Hye-won
McCune-Reischauer: Hye-wŏn
Courtesy name
Hangul: 입부
Hanja: 笠父
Revised Romanization: Ip-bu
McCune-Reischauer: Ip-pu
"Portrait of a Beauty," by Hyewon.
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"Portrait of a Beauty," by Hyewon.

Sin Yun-bok, better known by his pen name Hyewon, (b. 1758) was a Korean painter of the Joseon Dynasty. Like his contemporaries Danwon and Geungjae, he is known for his realistic depictions of daily life in his time. His paintings are distinctly more erotic than Danwon's, a fact which contributed to his expulsion from the royal painting institute, Dohwaseo. Painting was frequently a hereditary occupation in the Joseon period, and Hyewon's father and grandfather had both been court painters.

Together with Danwon and the later painter Owon, Hyewon is remembered today as one of the "Three Wons" of Joseon-period painting.

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