Sheng Tingyun is a literati painter from the Qing period (1645-1911). In the inscription, the artist claims to imitate the style of Dachi daoren, also known as Huang Gongwang (c.1269-1354), a landscape master from the Yuan period (1271-1368).
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 2.13 on p. 218, illus. p. 219 fig. 2.13
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