Zhāng Zhào 張照
Zì Détiān 得天, hào Jīngnán 涇南 and Tiānpíng jūshì 天瓶居士; posthumous title Wénmǐn 文敏. Native of Huátíng 華亭 (modern Sōngjiāng 松江, Shànghǎi). Jìnshì of Kāngxī 48 (1709) at the unusually young age of nineteen.
Career-long member of the Hànlín Academy and one of the most prominent calligraphers of the Yōngzhèng–Qiánlóng court; Zhì shūfáng dāzhí 直書房 from 1716, Hànlín shìjiǎng 翰林侍講, Lǐbù shàngshū 禮部尚書, and Xíngbù shàngshū 刑部尚書. Twice impeached and pardoned. His calligraphy in the Diànshì 殿試 style was the model for early Qiánlóng-era court production.
As one of the chief Wǔyīngdiàn 武英殿 editors, Zhāng Zhào contributed kǎozhèng 考證 (Qing collation notes) to a number of the Sìkù quánshū texts, most extensively to the Shǐjì (KR2a0001) where the kǎozhèng annex spans 42 juǎn. He was also the principal editor of the Mìngdiào kǎo 明調考, the imperial Yuèfǔ publications, and the Shìchōng 石渠寶笈 catalogue of imperial paintings (with Liáng Shīzhèng 梁詩正). Posthumously honoured with inclusion in the Xiányáng yuán 賢良祠.