Wu Li

Wu Li (c. 1632–1718) was a Chinese landscape painter, poet and Jesuit priest. Born at Changshu in Jiangsu, he studied painting under Wang Shimin and Wang Jian from 1646 and is counted among the Six Masters of the early Qing.

Through a Jesuit he converted, joined the Society of Jesus at Macau in 1682, and in 1688 was ordained at Nanjing among the first Chinese Jesuit priests. For thirty years he itinerated as a missionary near Shanghai and Jiading, dying in 1718.