signed RENSHUAIYING, inscribed ink and color on paper, hanging scroll Ren Shuaiying (1911-1989) was from Juli,Hebei Province.At the age of 20,because of the war,he went and lived in Harbin,working as an apprentice in a stationery store,but was dismissed due to tuberculosis.Returning ill to his hometown,he immediately studied painting.Later,he studied at the Hong Kong Chinese Portrait School,the Shanghai Shilian Comics Correspondence School,the Shanghai Zhongbiao Oil Painting Correspondence School,the Beijing Chinese Painting Correspondence School,etc.with an income earned from farming.In 1937,he went to Beijing and studied Chinese painting.Later,he was accepted as a disciple by the famous figure painter Xu Yansun.In 1951, he was transferred to People's Fine Arts Publishing House as a professional painter.