Qing · Official and Calligraphy Critic

Weng Fanggang 翁方綱

Attested AD 1644 - AD 1911

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Weng Fanggang was an official and Calligraphy Critic.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1770 to AD 1818 內閣學士翁方綱
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 136
AD 1736 to AD 1795 後 (after Wang Shu's Yongzheng career)
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 13
AD 1644 to AD 1911 清一代
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 208

Career and standing

calligrapher 書人
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 208
Academician of the Grand Secretariat 內閣學士
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 13
Grand Secretary of the Grand Secretariat 內閣學士
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 136

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Lived under
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 208
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 13
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 136

Learning and skills

Skill running script 行書 · Level ranked · Domain calligraphy 書
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 208
Skill small regular script 小真書 · Level ranked · Domain calligraphy 書
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211

Works and attributed material

Judgment · Speaker · About Person Id Wang Shu (王澍)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 13

Events and relationships

Denounced Deng for not paying court
Political · Critic · With Deng Shiru (鄧石如)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 136
Offered ranking of Wang Shu's scripts differing from common view
Scholarly · Critic
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 13
placed in capable grade, lower rank for running script 能品下，行書
Critical · Subject · Ranked · With Shichen (世臣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 208
placed in fine grade, upper rank for small regular script 佳品上，小真書
Critical · Subject · Ranked · With Shichen (世臣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211
Relation Rival of · Person Deng Shiru (鄧石如)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 136

Assessments and attributes

capable grade, lower rank: running script 能品下，行書
Assessment capable grade, lower rank · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Shichen (世臣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 208
fine grade, upper rank: small regular script 佳品上，小真書
Assessment fine grade, upper rank · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Shichen (世臣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 136

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 503Volume 503 Biographies 290: Yi Shu Er · 4 passages

後內閣學士翁方綱持論與異，謂其篆書得古法，行書次之，正書又次之。 Later the Academician of the Grand Secretariat Weng Fanggang took a different view, holding that Shu's seal script preserved the ancient manner, his running script came next, and his regular script ranked below both.

時京師論篆、分者，多宗內閣學士翁方綱，方綱以石如不至其門，力詆之。 At the time most Beijing critics of seal and clerical script followed the Grand Secretary Weng Fanggang, who attacked Shiru fiercely because he had not paid court to him.

能品下二十三人，王鐸草書，周亮工草書，笪重光行書，吳大來草書，趙潤草榜書，張照行書，劉紹庭草榜書，吳襄行書，翟賜履草書，王澍行書，週於禮行書，梁巘真及行書，翁方綱行書，於令行書，巴慰祖分書，顧光旭行書，張惠言篆書，王文治方寸真書，劉墉行書，汪庭桂分書，錢伯坰行及榜書，陳希祖行書，黃乙生小真行書。 capable grade, lower rank, twenty-three artists: Wang Duo in cursive script, Zhou Lianggong in cursive script, Da Chongguang in running script, Wu Dalai in cursive script, Zhao Run in cursive plaque script, Zhang Zhao in running script, Liu Shaoting in cursive plaque script, Wu Xiang in running script, Zhai Cilü in cursive script, Wang Shu in running script, Zhou Yuli in running script, Liang Yan in regular and running script, Weng Fanggang in running script, Yu Ling in running script, Ba Weizu in clerical script, Gu Guangxu in running script, Zhang Huiyan in seal script, Wang Wenzhi in small regular script, Liu Yong in running script, Wang Tinggui in clerical script, Qian Bojiong in running and plaque script, Chen Xizu in running script, and Huang Yisheng in small regular and running script.

佳品上二十二人，沈荃真書，王鴻緒行書，先著行書，查士標行書，汪士鋐真書，何焯小真書，陳奕禧行書，陳鵬年行書，徐良行書，蔣衡真書，於振行書，趙知希草書，孔繼涑行書，稽璜真書，錢澧行書，桂馥分書，翁方綱小真書，張燕昌小真書，康基田行書，錢坫篆書，谷際岐行書，洪梧小真書； Fine grade, upper rank, twenty-two artists: Shen Quan in regular script, Wang Hongxu in running script, Xian Zhu in running script, Zha Shibiao in running script, Wang Shihong in regular script, He Chao in small regular script, Chen Yixi in running script, Chen Pengnian in running script, Xu Liang in running script, Jiang Heng in regular script, Yu Zhen in running script, Zhao Zhixi in cursive script, Kong Jisu in running script, Ji Huang in regular script, Qian Li in running script, Gui Fu in clerical script, Weng Fanggang in small regular script, Zhang Yanchang in small regular script, Kang Jitian in running script, Qian Dian in seal script, Gu Jiqiao in running script, and Hong Wu in small regular script;