signed DINGGUANPENG,inscribed ink and color on silk, hanging scroll Ding Guanpeng(active 1708-1771) was a Chinese painter who lived during the Qing dynasty.He excelled at painting Buddhist and Daoist subjects as well as figures and landscapes with ruled-line motifs, his painting style being painstakingly neat. He also learned Western oil painting from a renowned Italian missionary-artist at court, Giuseppe Castiglione, and became an expert in using light and shade in coloring and one-point perspective.