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Narcissus and Flowering Apricots, hanging scroll in ink and colour by Qiu Ying, 1547; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Narcissus and Flowering Apricots, hanging scroll in ink and colour by Qiu Ying, 1547; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Narcissus and Flowering Apricots, hanging scroll in ink and colour by Qiu Ying, 1547; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Qiu Ying

Chinese painter
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Wade-Giles romanization:
Ch’iu Ying
Born:
c. 1494
Died:
c. 1559 or 1561, Taicang, Jiangsu province, China
Also Known As:
Ch’iu Ying
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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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