Pu Jin, along with his cousin Pu Ru (1896-1963) and his younger brother Pu Chuan (b. ca. 1913), all members of the Manchu imperial family, were educated in the Chinese classics and learned traditional styles of painting and calligraphy.5 Highly accomplished as a copyist of paintings from the Song and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties, Pu Jin became a professor and later Dean of the College of Art at Furen Catholic University in Beijing. In addition to landscapes and horses, Pu Jin also painted tigers and human figures, including an image of Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller