Cai Weilian
# Cai Weilian

Cai Weilian (Chinese: 蔡威廉; 1904–1939) was a Chinese painter.

## Early life

Cai Weilian was born and raised in Shaoxing, Zhejiang; of Chinese philosopher Cai Yuanpei's seven children, Weilian was reportedly his favourite. She studied oil painting in both Belgium and France.

## Career

Cai specialised in modernist oil painting and became a professor at the Hangzhou-based National Academy of Art in 1928.

## Later years

Cai Weilian married fellow artist Lin Wenzheng and relocated to Kunming, Yunnan. She died after childbirth in 1939.

