Yun Shouping

Yun Shouping (1633–1690) was an early-Qing painter, calligrapher and poet born at Wujin, Changzhou, son of a Ming loyalist. In the Ming-Qing war he served with his father in the anti-Qing resistance, was separated and adopted into a Qing official's household, and met his father again at Hangzhou's Lingyin Temple.

His family could not afford the civil service examinations, and he devoted himself to art. He first painted landscape but, outshone by Wang Hui, turned to bird-and-flower painting, reviving the boneless mogu manner and founding the Changzhou school. He ranks among the Six Masters of the early Qing, and died poor in 1690.