王文治：工书法，能得董其昌神髓，与梁同书齐名。文治平日喜用淡墨，以表现潇疏秀逸之神韵，时称“淡墨探花”，“淡墨翰林”。善画墨梅，韵致卓绝，诗宗唐、宋，自成一家，并精音律之学。筑“梦楼”。自滇归，买僮度曲，行无远近，必以歌伶自随。尝送女装美少年给毕秋帆(毕沅)，有好事者载：“某太守好以奇法为淫，饰女为男作仆，饰男为女作婢。”
著有《梦楼诗集》、《论书绝句三十首》等，传世书迹较多。
       于乾隆二十九年(1764年)，出任云南临安知府，在建水、通海等地留下过很多碑刻和对联。至今滇南一带尚有他的墨宝遗存，虽只尺中楮，民间亦视为拱璧。这幅行书中堂，是他在临安任知府时所书，写于绫上，长135厘米，宽44厘米，厚裱，品相完好，是难得的佳作。王文治学书虽宗“二王”，但对颜真卿却深怀敬意。他在《论书绝句》中写道：“曾经碧海掣鲸鱼，神力苍茫运太虚。间气中兴三鼎足，杜诗韩笔与颜书。”并喜写颜书内容。

王文治一生以书法称名于世，早年习书从前辈笪重光人手，受其影响颇深。他的楷书师从褚遂良，行草书则学自《兰亭序帖》和《圣教序》。但钱泳却认为他是学赵孟頫和董其昌的用笔，中年以后改习张即之。从王文治传世书法来看，其飘逸婉柔的点画和妩媚匀净的结体，的确透露出与笪重光、董其昌二人书法的传承关系，而线条的扁薄，更是浸染于笪氏书法的结果。除笪、董二人的影响外，还有一个因素不可忽视：王文治中年以后潜心禅理，对于有关佛经的书法尤其用心关注。他曾收得张即之的写经墨迹，临摹学习，因此其书风与张即之、笪重光一样有用笔扁薄的特点。
       他喜用长锋羊毫和青黑色的淡墨，这与他的天然秀逸的书风有表里相成之妙，故清代梁绍壬在《两般秋雨庵随笔》中说：“国朝刘石庵相国(指刘墉)专讲魄力，正梦楼太守(指王文治)则专取风神，故世有‘浓墨宰相，淡墨探花’之目。”钱泳亦将他与刘墉、梁同书作比，认为王文治中年得张即之书迹临摹，遂入轻佻一路，如同秋娘傅粉，骨格清纤，姿态自佳，而欠庄重。此论虽取贬义，但对王文治的书风特色的譬喻，还是比较精当的。这种“秋娘博粉”般的格调，亦可作为真伪鉴别的依据。从传世真迹来分析，王书运笔柔润，墨韵轻淡，行间布白，疏朗空灵，气格风神极其婉美，近于董其昌的书风而更加妩媚，倜傥风流的境界是作伪者难以仿效的，莫怪当时竟有“天下三梁(指梁同书、梁衍、梁国治)，不及江南一王”的说法。

据王昶《湖海诗传》称：“禹卿尤工书，楷法河南，行书效《兰亭》、《圣教》；入京师，士大夫多宝重之。”其实，王文治二十多岁时就书名遐迩传扬。乾隆二十一年（1756），全魁、周煌出使琉球，两位使臣仰慕王文治书名，特意邀请他同行，王文治欣然答应。琉球人素好书法，得知王文治是中国书法名家，纷纷重金求书，视为至宝，十分珍重，一时间王文治在琉球书名风靡。当时朝鲜人来华，专门以饼金购得王文治书法以归，其书法声名远播海外。乾隆皇帝南巡江南时，在杭州寺庙中见其所书《钱塘僧寺碑》，大赏爱之。由于乾隆皇帝的赞赏，王文治的书法声望一下大大提高，广为流传，为士林所宝。日本很多博物馆都珍藏着王文治真迹。如东京国立博物馆、京都藤井齐成会有邻馆、冲绳县立博物馆、大分县立博物馆皆珍藏有王文治的墨宝。
       其书法用笔规矩而洒落，结构紧密而内敛，墨色以淡为主，着实是董其昌书法风貌的再现。王文治忠实地秉承帖意，但无传统帖学的流转圆媚与轻滑。其书用笔转少折多，以折为主，显得果断有致，干净利落。瘦硬的笔画略带圆转之意，既妩媚动人，又俊爽豪逸，风神萧散，笔端毫尖处处流露出才情和清秀的特色。行书作品《待月之作》清妙妍美，俊朗疏秀，可见其晋唐功底深厚。

Wang Wenzhi (1730-1802) Officials, Poets and Calligraphers of the Qing Dynasty. Word Yu Qing, No. Dream House, Jiangsu Dantu people. Once with the Hanlin Shiqian Quankui to Ryukyu. Qianlong twenty-five years Jinshi, grant editing, pull paternity read, the official to Yunnan Linan prefect. Strike, since no intention to enter. Work calligraphy to charm wins. In fifty years, that is the study of Buddhism. There are "Dream House Poems", "fast rain Church Inscriptions."

Wang Wenzhi: work calligraphy, can get Dong Qichang marrow, and Liang with the book par. Wenzhi day hi with light ink, to show the charm of Xiaoshaoyi Yi, said "light ink third overall," "light ink Hanlin." Good painting Mo Mei, Yun Zhizhuo, poems were Tang, Song, self-contained, and fine temperament of the school. Building "Dream House." Since the return of Yunnan, to buy children's song, no line near and far, will be singing with their own. Taste to send women to the US teenager Biqiu Fan (Bi Yuan), there are good things contained: "a good defending the odd law as prostitution, decorated female male servant, decorated male female female servant.
Author of "Dream House Poems", "Thirty books on the quatrains", handed down more.
       In twenty-nine years of Qianlong (1764), as the Yunnan Lin'an prefect, in the construction of water, sea and so left a lot of inscriptions and couplets. So far in southern Yunnan region there are still his ink treasure remains, although only in the Chu, folk also considered arch bi. This book in the hall, he was in Lin'an any prefect of the book, written on the Aya, 135 cm long, 44 cm wide, thick mounted, product phase intact, is a rare masterpiece. Wang Wenzhi learning books, although the "two kings", but Yan Zhenqing was deeply respect. He wrote in the "Quatrains": "Once the blue sea whale, the divine power of transporting a virtual void .Interaction of gas tripartite tripod, Du Shi Han pen and Yan book." And happy to write Yan book content.