# Qiu Ying artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/qiu-ying/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:11:31.895Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Movements: Wu school, Ming dynasty painting
- Common media: Painting, Gongbi brush painting

## Portrait

![Qiu Ying](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Qiu_Ying_-_%E4%BB%87%E8%8B%B1%EF%BC%881494-1552%29.jpg/1280px-Qiu_Ying_-_%E4%BB%87%E8%8B%B1%EF%BC%881494-1552%29.jpg)
Li Yueyun, 1898. · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qiu_Ying_-_%E4%BB%87%E8%8B%B1%EF%BC%881494-1552).jpg

## About Qiu Ying

Qiu Ying (1494–1552) was a Chinese painter active during the Ming dynasty. Public reference sources identify painting as his principal occupation and associate him particularly with the precise gongbi brush tradition. He is also commonly placed near the Wu school and described as one of the Four Masters of the Ming dynasty, although the collected institutional records provide less narrative detail for those classifications than the encyclopedia sources. His courtesy name is recorded as Shifu and his art name as Shizhou. Collectors encounter Qiu Ying through paintings carrying his name or an attribution to him, as well as through later cataloguing traditions surrounding an influential early Chinese master. Those distinctions matter: a database association with the artist is not equivalent to authenticated authorship. Careful identification therefore begins with the catalogue wording, documented history, physical characteristics, and comparison with securely referenced works rather than with the artist name alone.

## Common works and media

The collected sources support paintings as the principal work type associated with Qiu Ying and identify gongbi as a characteristic brush technique. They do not provide enough lot-level evidence to rank particular subjects, formats, supports, or materials by auction frequency. Objects encountered under his name should therefore be described from their own observable characteristics and catalogue documentation rather than assigned an unsupported standard subject category.

## Market and appraisal context

Market interpretation should begin with the exact attribution attached to a painting, since a direct attribution, a qualified attribution, and a later work associated with the artist's tradition are not interchangeable. The stated medium and technique can be compared with Qiu Ying's documented connection to gongbi painting, but stylistic compatibility alone does not establish authorship. Date, format, dimensions, inscriptions, seals, provenance, condition, and the quality of available documentation may all require specialist examination before comparable sales are selected. Appraisily's artist page supplies an auction-record starting point; meaningful valuation requires comparison with genuinely similar public lots, their catalogue descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and any material qualifications recorded by the auction house.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q769372
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500324495
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiu_Ying
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiu_Ying
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/qiu-ying/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qiu_Ying_-_%E4%BB%87%E8%8B%B1%EF%BC%881494-1552).jpg