Zhou Chen (1460–1535), also known as Chou Ch'en, was a famed Chinese

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 painter active during the middle of the Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

. He was born in 1460 in Suzhou

Suzhou

Suzhou , previously transliterated as Su-chou, Suchow, and Soochow, is a major city located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province in Eastern China, located adjacent to Shanghai Municipality. The city is situated on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Taihu Lake and is a part...

 in the Jiangsu

Jiangsu

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 province.

Zhou's style name was 'Shunqing' and his sobriquet

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 was 'Dongchun'. He specialized in painting landscapes and human figures. He had two very famed students, Tang Yin

Tang Yin

Tang Yin , better known by his courtesy name Tang Bohu , was a Chinese scholar, painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Ming Dynasty period whose life story has become a part of popular lore...

 and Qiu Ying

Qiu Ying

Qiu Ying was a Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique.Qiu Ying's courtesy name was Shifu , and his pseudonym was Shizhou . He was born to a peasant family in Taicang and studied painting under Zhou Chen in Suzhou...

. He died in the Zhizong Jiajing 14th year (1535).