(b Panyu County, Guangdong Province, Jun 13, 1889; d Shanghai, Nov 2, 1933). Chinese painter. The younger brother of Gao Jianfu, he was one of the principal founders of the so-called Lingnan school of painting in southern China in the 1920s and 1930s. He sought to modernize Chinese ink painting by introducing new painting techniques from the West, especially scientific techniques of single-vanishing point perspective and anatomy. Many scholars suggest Gao Qifeng followed in his older brother Gao Jianfu’s footsteps and also served his apprenticeships in traditional Chinese painting at the studio of Ju Lian (1828–1904) in Lishan in Panyu County; however, no archival materials can be found to support this statement. Gao Qifeng did travel to Japan with Gao Jianfu between 1906 and 1907, where some of his early birds and flowers paintings painted during his sojourn to Japan survive in current collections. Eagle on the Pine Tree (1908), painted one year after Gao Qifeng returned to China, shows the influence of the Maruyama–Shijō school on his artistic development such as its use of hazy atmospheric background....