China: Portrait of the scholar and bibliophile Ge Yilong (1547-1640) by the Ming Dynasty painter...

Zeng Jing (Tseng Ching, ca. 1564-1647) was a Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). He was best known as a portrait painter. Zeng was born in Putian in Fujian province. He lived and worked in Nanjing, but also moved around Hangzhou, Wuzhen, Ningbo, Songjiang, and other cities. Zeng Jing painted using subtle light and shade, and he was considered by many critics as being significant for his assimilation of illusionist concave and convex method of western oil painting. A common feature of his portraiture is the presence of large areas of empty spaces surrounding the figure.