Qiu Ying

Place: Taicang

Born: 1510

Death: 1552

Biography:

Qiu Ying (Chinese: 仇英 pinyin: Qiú Yīng Wade–Giles: Ch'iu Ying 1494? – 1552) was a Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique. Qiu Ying's courtesy name was Shifu (实父), and his pseudonym was Shizhou (十洲). He was born to a peasant family in Taicang (太仓—now Jiangsu Province) and studied painting under Zhou Chen in Suzhou. Though Suzh...