Sim Sajeong

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Sim Sajeong

Hangul	심사정
Hanja	沈師正
Revised Romanization	Sim Sa Jeong

Pen name

Hangul	현재
Hanja	玄齋
Revised Romanization	Hyeonjae

Courtesy name

Hangul	이숙
Revised Romanization	Yisuk

Sim Sajeong (1707 ~ 1769), was a representative painter in the literary artist's style along with Jeong Seon in 18th Joseon period. He learned painting from Jeong Seon, so was influenced by his teacher. He was good at almost all over genres in paintings such as muninhwa (painting in the literal artistic style, sansuhwa (landscape painting), yeongmohwa (animal-and-bird painting), inmuhwa (portrait painting).