Li Shida (simplified Chinese: 李士达; traditional Chinese: 李士達; pinyin: Lǐ Shìdá, c. 1540), was a Chinese painter of the Ming dynasty. A native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, he obtained the position of a jinshi in the imperial examination in 1574 during the reign of the Wanli Emperor.
Li was born at a year around 1540. He grew up in Xingguo.[1]
Shida painted figures and landscape paintings. He also did flower painting (which he claimed he wasn't good at.[2]
He wrote an essay on five qualities he believed helped him paint. He claimed they were ability, sincerity, rarity, depth and harmony.[3]
