油画产生于欧洲,明万历年间由西方传教士带入中国,其后郎世宁等一批西方画家来到中国,使得油画开始进入上流社会。鸦片战争后,中国开放通商口岸,油画曾在广州等口岸热闹了一番,因为购买者多是外国人,所以称为“外销画”。直到20世纪前期,大批美术专业留学生回国,油画才成为中国现代美术的重要组成部分,开始与中 Oil paintings originated in Europe, brought to China by Western missionaries during the Ming Dynasty, and a group of Western artists such as Castiglione came to China after the oil paintings began to enter the upper class. After the Opium War, China opened its trading ports and oil paintings had been bustling in Guangzhou and other ports. Because buyers were mostly foreigners, they were called “export paintings.” Until the early 20th century, a large number of art students returned to China, oil painting became an important part of China’s modern art, beginning with