许家麟，1941年10月生于贵州省贵阳市，1961年毕业于贵州民族学院艺术附中，1965年毕业于贵州大学艺术系中国画专业。先后师从著名国画家宋吟可、王渔父、方小石及徐悲鸿大师的弟子孟光涛先生。擅长中国山水画和工笔花鸟画，1959年开始发表作品。现为中国美术家协会会员、宁夏美术家协会会员、国家一级美术师、宁夏人民出版社美术编审，宁夏书画函授专修学院特聘教授、名誉院长。Xu Jialin was born in Guiyang City in Guizhou Province in October 1941, and graduated in 1961 from art school affiliated to Guizhou Minzu Institute, and graduated in 1965 from Chinese Painting major in Department of Art, Guizhou University. He successively studied from the famous traditional Chinese painters Song Yinke, Wang Yufu and Fang Xiaoshi, as well as Meng Guangtao, the disciple of master Xu Beihong. He is good at Chinese landscape painting and Chinese fine brushwork flower-and-bird painting, and began to publish works in 1959. Mr. Xu is currently a member of Chinese Artists Association, a member of Ningxia Artists Association, national first-class artist, art editor in Ningxia People's Publishing House, specially-appointed professor and honorary dean of Ningxia Painting and Calligraphy Correspondence Training Institute.