丁云鹏,字南羽,号圣华居士,明嘉靖二十六年(1547)生,安徽休宁人。明代著名画家,精于白描人物,尤擅佛像画,兼工山水、花卉,能诗,无不精妙。丁云鹏在中国绘画史上是有着举足轻重地位的,后代每一部绘画著作几乎都会提及他,将他视为明代后期人物画代表画家之首。家学渊源,师从名师丁云鹏出身于南直隶徽州府休宁县一户世代行医的家庭,康熙《休宁县志》(卷十九)对其父丁赞的生平有如下的记载:“丁氏自宋世业医,嘉靖初 Ding Yunpeng, the word Nan Yu, No. St. Hua school, Ming Jiajing twenty-six years (1547) students, Anhui Xiuning. Famous painter of the Ming Dynasty, proficient in white sketch characters, especially good Buddha like painting, concurrently landscape, flowers, poetry, all without exception. Ding Yunpeng plays a decisive role in the history of Chinese painting. Almost every painting in his posterity will refer to him as the first representative figure painter in the Ming Dynasty. Family history, under the teacher Ding Yunpeng was born in Xi’ning Huizhou Prefecture Xiuning County, a generation of practicing family, Kangxi ”Xiuning County," (Volume 19) on his father Dingzan life records are as follows: Since the Song Dynasty medical practitioners, Jiajing early