Who painted the earliest painting of the Nine Tigers?

Liu Kui Ling painted Nine Tigers is a fine Chinese ink painting, this painting was made on March 4, 1947 .

Liu Kui Ling was born in the Qing Dynasty (1885 a 1967), the word Yaochen No. Butterfly Hidden, self-proclaimed "Seed Ink Grass Lodge Master". He is China's modern art history and the opening of a generation of giants and masters of animal painting, is recognized as "all-round painter". He can work and write well, specializing in animal and plant life and people landscape painting. He depicted a wide range of animal species, so far no one can match. And good at "potential" to create, painting works can be said to be "virtual not mind the window frame loose, solid do not feel the knot tight".

Liu Kui Ling living in a corner of Tianjin, the language of the Nei Zhi Jian, solitary, and Xu Beihong's "all the subtleties, to the vast" in line with. He was fond of Japanese painting, focusing on representative figures such as Yokoyama Daiguan and Takeuchi Nishiho. In his studies, he drew on the essence of classical techniques of the Misty School, the Kano School, Yamato painting, and Chinese painting, and was a stalwart representative of the traditional school and the school of fusion of East and West. He drew rich nutrients from the Classicism, Renaissance, Romanticism, Realism and even Impressionism in the use of light and color, oil painting techniques and even exaggerated deformation and so on, and also expanded the traditional realistic techniques, which formed the style of art that y influenced the artists of the Northern School, such as Huizhou Xiaotong, Liu Zijiu, Chen Shaomei, Liu Jijin, He Jiaying and so on.

In his Nine Tigers paintings, the tigers are lying down, looking back, and in various postures. The tiger's nose and whiskers are painted in detail, showing a perfect combination of coarse and fine styles; the tiger's eyeballs are painted in yellow, and the eyeballs are dotted in thick ink, so that the tiger appears to be eyeing the tiger even though it is a reclining tiger, and the cool eyes are still intimidating to the eye.

The whole picture is well-structured, full of composition, is a rare and wonderful work.