signed LIGONGLIN,inscribed,and with one seal of the artist ink and color on silk, hanging scroll Li Gonglin (1049–1106) was a Chinese painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was particularly famous for his painting of horses, and also noted for his Buddhism and Taoism religious painting, as well as portrait and landscape painting. His painting style was attributed to that of Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.