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- Wade-Giles romanization:
- Ch’iu Ying
- Born:
- c. 1494
- Died:
- c. 1559 or 1561, Taicang, Jiangsu province, China
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Qiu Ying
Chinese painter
Also known as: Ch’iu Ying
Qiu Ying (born c. 1494—died c. 1559 or 1561, Taicang, Jiangsu province, China) was a Chinese painter noted for his gongbi brush technique, used to produce highly detailed figure and architectural paintings and flower studies. Qiu did not pursue the other characteristic arts and activities of the man of letters that Chinese critics believed were marks of a great painter, but he earned critics’ respect for the dexterity, representational skill, and refinement of feeling evident in his paintings.
He lived in the Suzhou region, home of the revered Wu school of painting, and counted among his artist associates Zhou Chen, who may have been his teacher, and Tang Yin.
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