title: Cai Weilian
text: # 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.
  
  