画史中对肖像画家华冠的记载多有缺失和舛误,本文从历史档案和传世作品入手,结合清人笔记,对华冠进京时间和民间画师身份进行了考证,并对他的生年予以确认,对其卒年作出推论。在确认肖像画像主身份的基础上,通过考察华冠在京期间的服务对象,勾勒出华冠在京活动的艺术圈子,以及与其相关的肖像雇主群,即以乾隆皇帝之子永瑢为核心的宗室贵族、官僚文人群体,这对于探究当时盛行的文学、艺术之士以权门清客的身份“馆于”贵族、高官之家的生存方式具有典型意义。 In the history of painting, there are many shortcomings and errors in the portrayal of the portrait artist Arimaghua. Starting from the historical archives and the handed down works, combining with Qingren’s notes, this article conducts a research on the Arima’s Beijing time and the identity of folk painter, Be confirmed, make an inference about their date of death. On the basis of confirming the main identity of portraits and portraits, this article draws the outline of Arima’s art circles in Beijing and the portraits of employers of portraits, that is, the clan aristocrat whose core is Emperor Qianlong’s emperors , Bureaucratic literati group, which is of typical significance for exploring the identity of the literary and art people prevailing at the time as the mode of living of “patrician” aristocrats and senior officials.