Tang artist and engineer. Aristocratic origin. 

Yanliben depicts figures Maung Aye God, writing yen strength, Qiyun vivid, from the figures in the painting that character. 

Yanliben works reservations to the current "ancient emperors map Volume" is an attempt to ancient painters performance character of important works. This picture scroll contains a total of 13 portraits of the emperor, the emperor successfully portray their individual character. The painting not only demonstrated their understanding of the artist, a painter and performance of their evaluation, in the ancient history of the development of painting holds an important position.

Yanliben was a high official within the imperial court, but his fame derives from his skill as a painter. He is recorded as having painted Buddhist and Daoist subjects and as having received various imperial commissions; but among the extant works attributed to him, the most important is the hand scroll Portraits of the Emperors, which depicts a series of emperors selected from about the preceding 800 years of history (only the last seven of the portraits are original; the first six were copies of earlier works). Yan Liben has imbued them with subtly defined characters through a tightly controlled line and limited use of colour. His brother, Yan Lide, was also a famous official and painter.