Cai Weilian (; 1904âÂÂ1940) was a Chinese oil painter and professor.
Cai Weilian was born and raised in Shaoxing, Zhejiang; of Chinese philosopher Cai Yuanpei seven children, Weilian was reportedly his favourite. She studied oil painting in both Belgium and France.
Cai specialised in modernist oil painting and became a professor at the Hangzhou-based National Academy of Art in 1928.
Cai Weilian married fellow artist Lin Wenzheng and relocated to Kunming, Yunnan. She died after childbirth in 1939.