Huizong

Huizong, or Hui Tsung (1082–1135), last Chinese emperor of the northern Sung dynasty (r. 1101–25). He founded the first imperial Chinese academy of painting. An accomplished painter himself, Huizong urged other artists to be “true to color and form,” as his realistic paintings of birds and flowers show. He spent his final decade in captivity and died in exile in Manchuria, after being overthrown by the Tartars.

See also: China.