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Qiu Ying
See Wikipedia, etc.		 仇英 1
Left:  蕉陰結夏 In the shade of banana trees whiling away summer 2
Right: 停琴聽阮 Stopping the qin to hear a ruan 3
Qiu Ying, 1494 - 1552, executed quite a number of paintings with qin players. A net search will find some of them, but perhaps not some such as In the shade of banana trees whiling away summer, at right, that do not mention qin in the title. The examples at right form an interesting pair. Both feature a qin zither and and ruan lute.4

Qiu Ying did not come from a literati family, and I have yet to find evidence that he played qin himself.

 

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1. Qiu Ying 仇英
See further on this Chinese site.
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2. In the shade of banana trees whiling away summer 蕉陰結夏
In the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan.
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3. Stopping the qin to hear a ruan 停琴聽阮
In the collection of the Guangzhou Museum (?). A net search for the Chinese title yields numerous more recent paintings with this title (but 845.xxx).
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4. Ruan 阮
A plucked lute. See Wikipedia, etc. Is it a coincidence that qin and ruan were the two instruments associated with the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove?
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