Cai Weilian (Chinese: 蔡威廉; 1904–1940) was a Chinese oil painter and professor.

Early life

A young Cai Weilian with parents and siblings in Germany, c. September 1912.

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.