Li Zai
Li Zai; ca.(" unknown"- 1431) was a Chinese painter of landscapes and human figures during the Ming Dynasty( 1368 – 1644).
His specific birth year is not known.
Li was born in Putian in Fujian province and active during the Xuande era.
His style name was' Yizheng'( 以政).
Li's painting followed the style of Guo Xi, Ma Yuan, and Xia Gui.
Li Tang (painter)
Li Tang( courtesy name Xigu 晞古; c. 1050 – 1130) was a Chinese landscape painter who practised at Kaifeng and Hangzhou during the Song dynasty.
He forms a link between earlier painters such as Guo Xi, Fan Kuan and Li Cheng and later artists such as Xia Gui and Ma Yuan.
He perfected the technique of" axe- cut" brush- strokes.
Ma Yuan (painter)
Ma Yuan( c. 1160–65 – 1225) was a Chinese painter of the Song dynasty.
His works, together with that of Xia Gui, formed the basis of the so- called Ma- Xia( 馬夏) school of painting, and are considered among the finest from the period.
His works has inspired both Chinese artists of the Zhe School, as well as the great early Japanese painters Shūbun and Sesshū.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Zhou Wenjing
Zhou Wenjing, was a famed Chinese imperial painter in Ming Dynasty.
His birth and death dates are unknown, but he was active until some time after 1463.
Zhou, pseudonym Sanshan( 三山）, was a native of Hexian( now Putian) in Fujian province.
He was skillful at landscape painting and followed in the style of Xia Gui.
He enjoyed the patronage of the elderly Xie Huan.
Xia Gui
Xia Gui( fl. 1195 – 1224), courtesy name Yuyu( 禹玉), was a Chinese landscape painter of the Song dynasty.
Very little is known about his life, and only a few of his works survive, but he is generally considered one of China's greatest artists.
He continued the tradition of Li Tang, further simplifying the earlier Song style to achieve a more immediate, striking effect.
Together with Ma Yuan, he founded the so- called Ma- Xia( 馬夏) school, one of the most important of the period.
Although Xia was popular during his lifetime, his reputation suffered after his death, together with that of all Southern Song academy painters.
Nevertheless, a few artists, including the Japanese master Sesshū, continued Xia's tradition for hundreds of years, until the early 17th century.
Liu Songnian
Liu Songnian( 刘松年 or traditional Liu Sung- nien)( 1174 – 1224 CE), was a Chinese landscape painter during the early Southern Song Dynasty( 1127 – 1279).
He was active from about 1190- 1230 and is considered one of the Four Masters of the Southern Song dynasty, which also included Li Tang, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui.
He studied and worked at the Imperial Academy of Painting in Hangzhou, capital of the Southern Song dynasty.
Liu entered the Southern Song Imperial Academy of Painting as a student in 1189, and went on to become a painter- in- attendance from 1190- 1194.
During the reign of Emperor Ningzong of Song, he received a prestigious award for his work.
Liu followed the tradition of Li Tang.
Liu's style influenced the work of Ma Yuan and Xia Gui.
Elemér Somfay
Elemér Somfay( 28 August 1898 – 15 May 1979) was a Hungarian athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon.
He competed for a Hungary at the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France in the Pentathlon where he won the silver medal.
He also competed in the modern pentathlon at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Sun Junze
Sun Junze( Chinese: 孙君泽) was a famed Chinese painter in Yuan Dynasty.
His birth and death years are unknown.
Sun was born in Hangzhou in the Zhejiang province.
Sun painted primarily landscapes and human figures.
His style followed Ma Yuan and Xia Gui, and had a direct influence on the formation of Zhejiang School later in the Ming Dynasty.
Eble d'Ussel
Eble or Ebles d' Ussel( also" d'Ussèl" or" d' Uisel"; fl. c. 1200) was a Limousin troubadour, the eldest of three brothers, castellans of the castle of Ussel- sur- Sarzonne, northeast of Ventadorn.
His younger brothers were Peire and Gui and he also had a cousin named Elias, all troubadours.
Of his corpus only one" tenso", one" partimen"( with Guilhem Ademar), and a" cobla" survive.
The only sources for his life, besides his own songs, are the" vida" of his brother Gui and a document recording the donation of land to the abbey of Bonaigue by two brothers Guido and Eblo Usseli.
According to Gui's" vida", Eble composed" bad" tensos.
The complete works of the four relations of Ussel, including Eble, were first compiled in one volume by J. Audiau as" Les poésies des quatre troubadours d' Ussel"( Paris, Delagrave, 1922).
They are all available online at trobar.org.

Question: Were Xia Gui and Elemér Somfay of the same nationality?
Answer: no