‘A RIVER LANDSCAPE’, BY PAN GONGSHOU (1741-1794)China. Ink on paper, mounted as a hanging scroll. Finely painted with a mountainous river landscape with a few houses and pavilions nestled between boldly executed trees, above a single figure paddling in a boat.Inscriptions: To the painting, upper left, inscribed ‘Lianchao jushi Pan Gongshou’, dated ‘on a summer day in the Year of Wuwu in the Jiaqing era’ (corresponding to 1798), and inscribed ‘in the style of Gao Fangshan’ (Gao Kegong, 1248-1310); two seals of the artist, ‘gong’ and ‘shou’. Lower right, two seals. To the mounting, to the left beside the painting, inscribed by Wu Yun (1811-1883), ‘The exquisite brushwork by Lianchao Jushi [Pan Gongshou] is attributed to the yipin class. This painting is in the style of Gao Fangshan, it is especially excellent. In the Spring of the Year of Yihai [corresponding to 1875], Yuting Wu Yun’; one seal, ‘Pingzhai shending’. To the mounting, to the right beside the painting, inscribed by Tang Yusheng (1778-1853), ‘Pan Gongshou, artist name Shenfu, sobriquet Lianchao, came originally from Dantu. Wen Hengshan [Wen Zhengming, 1470-1559] titled. It was said that the painting by Wang Menglou [Wang Wenzhi, 1730-1802] was in the style of Gao Kegong and signed by himself. It is really an exceptional painting. Written on a summer day in Jilong shanlu’; two seals. The scroll with an old label, inscribed ‘Pan Gongshou, Landscape, Authentic’.Provenance: Collection of W. W. Winkworth, 1966. The Oliver Impey Collection of Modern Paintings, acquired from the above. William ‘Billy’ Wilberforce Winkworth (1897-1991) was a legendary collector of Asian art. The Oriental Ceramic Society was founded at his father's home in 1921. After military service in World War I, he joined the British Museum in 1922 under R. L. Hobson in the Department of Ceramics, leaving in 1926 to be a full-time collector and 'marchand amateur'. Between around 1948 and 1970 he was a part-time cataloger at Sotheby’s, working on Japanese netsuke, lacquer, and sword fittings. He was famous for his eye and range of connoisseur, especially in ceramics, and exercised a great influence on his generation of British collectors. Oliver Impey (1936-2005) was the President of the Oriental Ceramics Society (1997-2000), a noted curator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and a leading authority on the arts of Japan. He studied at the University of Oxford,pleting his thesis while working in London at Sotheby's, where his connoisseur and remarkable breadth of knowledge began to develop, as well as his intimate knowledge of the art trade and vigilant eye for a bargain. In 1967, he was appointed Assistant Keeper for Japanese Art at the Ashmolean, and was able, as a Sotheby's colleague put it rather bluntly, to move “straight from the whorehouse to the nunnery”. For nearly four decades, Impey was a tireless acquirer of fine objects, vastly expanding the Museum's holdings. He designed a