We report B , V , and R band CCD photometry of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 obtained with the 1.0 m telescope at Weihai Observatory of Shandong University and the 1.56 m telescope at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory from 2005 December to 2013 February .
Combining all available data from literature , we have constructed a historical light curve from 1910 to 2013 to study the periodicity of the source using three different methods ( the Jurkevich method , the Lomb-Scargle periodogram method and the Discrete Correlation Function method ) .
We find possible periods of P _ { 1 } = 4 \pm 0.1 , P _ { 2 } = 7.5 \pm 0.3 and P _ { 3 } = 15.9 \pm 0.3 yr .