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'''Ren Xun''' ({{zh|c=任薰|w='''Jen Hsün'''}}; ca. 1835&ndash;1893) was a Chinese painter during the [[Qing Dynasty]].
Ren was born in [[Xiaoshan District|Xiaoshan]] in [[Zhejiang]] province.<ref name="chinaweb">{{cite web|url=http://www.china-on-site.com/pages/painter/1118.php|title=Rèn Xūn Brief Biography|access-date=2008-07-17}}</ref> Ren came from a family of artists, his brother was [[Ren Xiong]]. His paintings were primarily of human figures, done in the style of [[Chen Hongshou]]. He was one of the "Four Rens of Shanghai"<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://en.dpm.org.cn/collections/collections/2014-09-05/434.html |title=Ten Magnificent Landscapes |publisher=The Palace Museum}}</ref>
Today, his work is held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the [[Palace Museum]],<ref name=":0" /> the [[British Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=hanging scroll; painting {{!}} British Museum|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1985-0403-0-1-4|access-date=2021-02-05|website=The British Museum|language=en}}</ref> the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49461 |url-status=live |archive-date=Feb 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214205923/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49461 |title=Bird on a Rock by a Flowering Branch |date=1879 |website=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |language=en |access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref> the [[University of Michigan Museum of Art]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Exchange: Crane, Pine and Bamboo|url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/36839/view|access-date=2021-02-05|website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}}</ref> the [[Yale University Art Gallery]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Reading at the Secluded Pine Studio (Song yin an) {{!}} Yale University Art Gallery|url=https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/67606|access-date=2021-02-05|website=artgallery.yale.edu}}</ref> the [[Harvard Art Museums]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harvard|title=From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Narcissus, Plum Blossom, Bamboo, and Bird|url=https://harvardartmuseums.org/art/209785|access-date=2021-02-05|website=harvardartmuseums.org|language=en}}</ref> and the [[Brooklyn Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brooklyn Museum|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/110544|access-date=2021-02-05|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}</ref>
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