仇英是位职业画家,拜环境之赐,他得以结识许多具有渊博学养的朋友。这些朋友还对他的绘画产生了深远的影响。他大约出生于15世纪最后的10年左右,至晚在1552年之前去世或停止作画,因为名作家兼书法家彭年(1505-1566)在1552年写了一篇题词,其中谈到仇英的画作“而今不可复得矣”1。他在画坛活跃的时间,总共不超过30年。仇英出身太仓的一户贫寒人家,然其年轻时就迁往苏州,并在那里成为一名画匠的学徒。这段期间,他的 Qiu Ying is a professional painter, thanks to the environment thanks to him, he was able to get acquainted with many well-educated friends. These friends have also had a profound impact on his paintings. He was born about the last decade or so of the 15th century and died or stopped painting before 1552 as the famous writer and calligrapher Peng Nian (1505-1566) wrote an inscription in 1552, Painting “Now can not be carried on ” 1. He is active in painting circles for a total of no more than 30 years. Ch’ing Ying, a poor family from Taicang, relocated to Suzhou as a young man and became an apprentice of his artisans there. During this period, he’s