建国前
清光绪三十四年（1908）考入浙江高等学堂。宣统三年(1911)毕业后返里，次年创办永嘉启明女学。1914年创设东瓯美术会，后任教浙江省立十中。1919年7月，与郑振铎等发起组织永嘉新学会，提出“改革旧思想，创立新思想”的主张，次年出版《新学报》。1924年赴上海，先后任上海中学教员，存德中学、勤业中学董事长，上海美专教授，大夏大学文书主任兼中国文学系国文教授。1929年，与郑曼青、马孟容等创办中国艺术专科学校，并任书法教授。同年，教育部举办第一次全国美术展览，被聘为委员；后又应聘为“西湖博览会”美术馆委员。1933年，其作品参加柏林“中德美术展览”，后又参加“中日联合绘画展”及英国、意大利等地画展。1941年，与马漪等在上海大新画厅举办“永嘉五马画展”。战后美国画展及国内历次各大美展，亦均有作品参加。在此期间，还先后任上海美术会、中国画会理事，中华艺术教育社常务理事及上海市美术馆筹备处设计委员等职。
建国后
建国后，任上海文史馆馆员、上海中国画院画师，还兼任中国文字改革委员会委员，并参加中国美术家协会上海分会、上海中国书法篆刻研究会等。
公愚素有“艺苑全才”之誉。其书法，篆、隶、真、草，无一不精，真草取法钟、王，笔力浑厚，气息醇雅；篆隶更具功力，书名遍播大江南北。绘画擅长山水、花卉、鸟鱼等，篆刻取法秦汉，探本求源，无丝毫近人习气，但均为书名所掩。
文革中
“文化大革命”中备受折磨，而对艺事仍钻研不懈。1969年2月21日病逝于上海，终年75岁，遗体归葬温州。著有《书法史》、《书法讲话》、《应用图案》、《公愚印谱》、《畊石簃墨痕》、《畊石簃杂著》等；中国《现代篆刻选辑》(三)一书，收录其印刻53方。
 

擅长书法、篆刻，亦能作画。书法，异草取法锺、王，笔力浑厚，气息醇雅，篆隶亦具功力，在大江南北，所书碑碣甚多。篆刻取法秦、汉，所作秦小玺、汉玉印，可以逼古。著有书法讲话、书法史、公愚印谱、阱石移杂著等。所作花卉画，近明人写意笔法。
著有《书法史》、《书法讲话》、《耕石簃杂著》。书画、篆刻、诗文，悉承家传，髫龄从父学书，十五六岁便以能书闻，在浙江高等师范就读时，为张宗祥赏识，得其指诲。马世代书家，自乾嘉以还凡二百年，临池课子，力学不辍，人才辈出，蔚成家风。
篆书宗法《秦诏版》、《石鼓文》，古朴厚重，典丽儒雅。《隶书取经》《石门》、《华山》、《曹全》等汉代诸碑，结字疏朗，波挑舒展，柔中寓刚。真书取法钟太傅，笔力浑厚，结体宽博，行草学王右军，俊逸神超，妍美流便。临池功力之深，几可乱真，世人推为神手。中年居沪遇沦陷之变，辞职蓄须以鬻字为生，晚年书风趋于老辣凝练，严谨之外，洒脱奇肆。一生书碑碣甚多。用笔喜硬毫、马毫，刚柔相济，拙而不滞，最为得心应手，使用最多；亦常用乌龙水笔，写章草得典雅开张之韵致。篆刻取法秦汉，所作小玺汉白饶有古意。亦能花草，清丽一如其书。
海上艺苑的双子星座著名书画家马孟容（1892－1932）、马公愚（1893－1969）系兄弟伯仲，两人同时入塾发蒙，同时毕业，同时结婚，亦同时来上海涉足艺事。因而在三十年代被誉为“海上艺苑的双子星座”。
马孟容、马公愚出生于温州书香世家，青箱家学，渊源有自，其祖父马兰笙曾印曰：“琴画传家二百年”。兄弟两人自幼习诗文，学书画，攻篆刻。及长后就读于温州府学堂，后入浙江高等学堂，毕业后双双返乡执教于温州中学，与朱自清等为同事，交谊深厚，朱自清在散文集《踪迹》中亦有记载。1929年，他们来到了风云际汇的上海，以勃发的开拓精神创办了“中国艺术专科学校”，孟容为国画教授，公愚为书法教授，从此活跃于海上文艺界，颇受前辈名家的推崇。
马孟容少年时在图画方面已见天赋。8岁时曾为其祖父画像，虽尚稚拙，但神态之逼真深为家长们所惊异。其父自民国之初闲居在家，专以金石书画自娱，孟容耳濡目染，深受熏陶。后来又拜著名画家汪如渊（香禅）为师，得其精华，当时就有出蓝之誉。但马孟容并不以此满足，深入生活，注重写生与观察自然，并尝试吸收西方绘画的某些特点融入国画。提倡宁雅毋俗，雅俗共赏的画风。为推动故乡的美术事业，他曾创建东瓯美术会。1926年，北伐军攻了浙江，省防军司令部聘他为宣传部主任。后应上海美专国画系主任郑曼青之聘，任该校花鸟画教授。当时出版的《中日现代绘画展览作品第一辑》评他“用笔初师白阳、南田，近则合宋元而自出心匠，工整雅素，当推花鸟妙手。”书画界极有声望的曾熙（号农髯，张大千的舅父）曾说“近时花鸟，求其笔致高雅，当推孟容。”

一代文化名人蔡元培先生曾以美学家的审美眼光评马孟容的绘画为：“吾国画有文人派与画院派之别，文人之作，大多气韵生动，寄托遥深，而放者为之，或流于疏脱；画院之作，大抵界画精细，描写逼真，而拘者为之，或失之板滞。孟容先生折衷两派，兼取其长，诚出色当行，有艺术价值之作也。”综观马孟容的丹青，格古而韵新，典雅而朴茂。其笔墨简约清逸，设色明丽和谐，构图疏朗灵动，意境内蕴丰澹，凸显了鲜明的个性风格。曾和吴昌硕、王一亭、赵叔孺等人雅兴联谊、诗文唱和。

马孟容的绘画曾在巴拿马万国博览会、比利时博览会、法国美术展览会上获得好评。惜天不假年，英才早逝。为此，于右任先生手书：“愿爱孟容者努力，令其精神不死”。

素有“艺苑全才”之称的马公愚先生，长期寓居襄阳路颐得坊。马公愚学养深厚，造诣独到。精于文史金石，究心周鼎商金，朝夕用功精勤，运毫驰墨于素笺，铁笔纵横于印面。且辛勤栽培后生，桃李满门。系西泠印社社员，上海大夏大学文书主任兼中国文学系国文教授。马公愚的书法四体皆精熟而风格自出，尤以篆书和行草见长，篆书取意于金文、诏版、石鼓，笔调高逸古朴，气韵华滋浑穆。其行草则效法魏晋，线条刚健苍劲，笔致畅达圆融，颇为大气豪迈，因而他的招牌书写在当时曾独步书坛。马公愚的篆刻追踪秦玺汉印，气淳质厚，稳重静穆，具有内存的神韵气势。学者沈禹钟在《印人杂咏》中称曰：“退笔堆墙老未休，白眉才艺压时流。秦时小玺应参遍，玉印还从汉法求。”他的绘画也颇有书卷气，无论是花卉、翎毛、山水等，均清雅幽逸，诗意弥漫。马公愚解放后曾任上海文史馆馆员、上海中国画院画师、中国文字改革委员会委员。作为教授级的书画家，马公愚著述丰富，有《墨子间诂》、《古籀拾遗》、《书法史》、《耕古杂著》、《公愚印谱》等。三十年代的书画金石家，都有一个共同的特点：即学识宏富，气质高雅。马氏兄弟耕耘于艺林，亦得力于此。如此人文精神及从艺遗绪，是颇值当今艺人吸纳取法的。

著有《书法史》、《书法讲话》、《耕石簃杂著》。书画、篆刻、诗文，悉承家传，髫龄从父学书，十五六岁便以能书闻，在浙江高等师范就读时，为张宗祥赏识，得其指诲。马世代书家，自乾嘉以还凡二百年，临池课子，力学不辍，人才辈出，蔚成家风。
篆书宗法《秦诏版》、《石鼓文》，古朴厚重，典丽儒雅。《隶书取经》《石门》、《华山》、《曹全》等汉代诸碑，结字疏朗，波挑舒展，柔中寓刚。真书取法钟太傅，笔力浑厚，结体宽博，行草学王右军，俊逸神超，妍美流便。临池功力之深，几可乱真，世人推为神手。中年居沪遇沦陷之变，辞职蓄须以鬻字为生，晚年书风趋于老辣凝练，严谨之外，洒脱奇肆。一生书碑碣甚多。用笔喜硬毫、马毫，刚柔相济，拙而不滞，最为得心应手，使用最多；亦常用乌龙水笔，写章草得典雅开张之韵致。篆刻取法秦汉，所作小玺汉白饶有古意。亦能花草，清丽一如其书。

Before the founding of
Thirty-four years Guangxu (1908) admitted to the high school in Zhejiang. Xuantong three years (1911) after graduation, the founder of Yongjia Qiming female school. In 1914 the creation of Dong'ou art, taught in Zhejiang provincial tenth. In July 1919, Zheng Zhenduo and other organizations initiated the new society of Yongjia, proposed "the reform of old ideas, the creation of new ideas" proposition, the following year published the new journal. Go to Shanghai in 1924, has served as the Shanghai high school teacher, middle school, high school industry cunde chairman, Shanghai Academy of fine arts professor, director of China Daxia university documents and Literature Department of Chinese professor. In 1929, Zheng Manqing, Ma Mengrong and other Chinese art school founded, and any calligraphy professor. In the same year, the Ministry of Education held the first national art exhibition, was appointed as a member; then apply for the "West Lake Expo" art museum. 1933, his work to participate in Berlin, "Sino German art exhibition," and then participated in the Sino Japanese joint painting exhibition and the United Kingdom, Italy and other places of art exhibition. In 1941, Ma Yi and organized "Yongjia five exhibition in Shanghai new picture hall". The postwar American Art Exhibition and the previous domestic art exhibition, has participated in. During this period, has also served as director of the Shanghai fine arts society, Chinese Painting Association, executive director of the Chinese Art Education Association and Shanghai Art Museum Preparatory Office Design Committee members.
After the founding of
After the founding of the PRC, Shanghai museumlibrarian, Shanghai Chinese painting artist, also serves as member of China language reform committee, and participate in the China Artists Association Shanghai branch, Shanghai Chinese Calligraphy Research etc..
The fool is known as "art all rounder" reputation. The calligraphy, seal, scribe, true, grass, are all fine, really the clock, the king of grass, vigorous strokes, breath of elegance; zhuanli more skill, the sowing times on both sides of the Changjiang River. Good at painting landscapes, flowers, birds and fish, carving from the Qin and Han Dynasties, explore the origin, without the slightest personal habits, but was overshadowed by that.
During the Cultural Revolution
Tortured in the Great Cultural Revolution ", and the French still unremitting study. February 21, 1969 died in Shanghai, aged 75, was buried in Wenzhou. The author of "the history of calligraphy", "calligraphy" and "speech", "public" application pattern "," stone yinpu mark "," Yimo Geng Geng Shi Yi "with" modern seal; China. "(three) a book that included the engraved 53 party.

Good at calligraphy, carving, painting can also be. Calligraphy, different extraction method, Wang Zhong, vigorous strokes, breath of elegance, zhuanli also has the skill, in the book are on both sides of the Changjiang River stele. The seal from the Qin and Han Dynasty, made by Qin Xiaoxi, Han jade seal, can force the ancient. The author of calligraphy calligraphy history, public speech, Yu yinpu, wells with stone shift etc.. The flower paintings, near the Ming Dynasty freehand brushwork.
The author of "the history of calligraphy", "calligraphy", "Geng Shi Yi speech with". Painting, sculpture, poetry, all bearing the well-known, childhood from the parent school books, fifteen six year old will be able to book it, in the Zhejiang higher normal school, as Zhang Zongxiang appreciated, it refers to the sea. The horse generation calligraphers, who also from Qianlong two hundred years, Lin Chi class, mechanical Buchuo, talent, become a family tradition.
Zhuanshu "Qin Chao," patriarchal version "" stone drum ", ancient heavy, refined elegance. "From" Shimen "," official "Huashan", "Cao Quan" and the Han Dynasty stele, knot word lichtung, wave pick stretch, Sophie Yu gang. The real clock tutor, pen vigorous, Jieti broad, cursive Wang Youjun, Yi God, Yan beauty reuben. The skill of deep skill, be true, the world is pushing hands. In the fall of the middle-aged Shanghai, resigned to a word vend for a living, his book wind LaoLa tends to be concise, rigorous, and odd. Many life book stele. No, no hard pen like a horse, clumsy and not lag, move among force and soft, the most handy, most frequently used; also used Oolong pen, write to the opening of Zhangcao elegant charm. The seal from the Qin and Han Dynasties, the ancient Chinese white with small. Can a book and flowers.
Gemini famous painter Ma Mengrong sea Gallery (1892 - 1932), Ma Gongyu (1893 - 1969), brother brother, two people at the same time in Sook fameng, at the same time, marry at the same time, also to Shanghai in french. Thus in 30s known as "sea Yiyuan gemini".
Ma Mengrong was born in Wenzhou, Ma Gongyu green box family, literary family, well-grounded, his grandfather had said: "India Ma Lansheng piano painting heirloom for two hundred years". The two brothers who learn learning poetry, calligraphy and painting, carving of. And long after studying at the Wenzhou government school, after entering the Zhejiang higher school, after graduating from both home at Wenzhou high school, Zhu Ziqing and other colleagues, a deep, Zhu Ziqing in prose "trace" also recorded. In 1929, they came to Shanghai to exchange the Fengyun occasion, blooming and pioneering spirit and established the "China art school", is Professor Meng painting, calligraphy Professor Yu Gong, active in the sea from the literary and art circles, the respected elder masters.
Ma Mengrong had talent in drawing when he was a teenager. At the age of 8 had its grandfather portrait, although still immature, but the expression of deep realistic parents surprise. Since the beginning of the Republic of China in his father at home, designed to amuse the stone painting, Meng Rong monasteries, nurtured by. Then thanks to the famous painter Wang Ruyuan (Zen incense) as a teacher, to its essence, there was a blue reputation. But Ma Mengrong is not satisfied with this, in-depth life, focus on sketching and observation of nature, and try to absorb some of the characteristics of Western painting into Chinese painting. Advocate ningya not vulgar, refined style. In order to promote the native art career, he founded Dong'ou art club. In 1926, the Northern Expedition army attacked Zhejiang, anti army headquarters hired him as director of the propaganda department. After the Chinese Painting Department of Shanghai Academy of fine arts director Zheng Manqing hired, director of the university professor of painting. At the time of publishing "Sino Japanese modern painting exhibition of the works of the first series" he "pen at the beginning of division of Bai Yang, Nan Tian, nearly is from heart and carpenter, plain and neat, when push and cherish." Painting and calligraphy of the prestigious Ceng Xi (No. agricultural beard, Zhang Daqian's uncle) once said "near the flower, elegant elegant, when push Meng rong."
A generation of cultural celebrities Mr. Cai Yuanpei had to aesthetics aesthetic vision on Ma Mengrong painting: "my painting literati school and academy school, scholars, most vivid, sustenance away deep, and put for, or a painting for the rough; probably painting fine, description and realistic, arrested for, or lost the machine. Mr. Meng Rong compromise factions, and take its long, honest good do work, artistic value." Looking at Ma Mengrong's pictures, and getting new rhyme, elegant and luxuriant. The painting is simple and elegant, bright color harmony, lichtung composition lively, artistic connotation of Feng Dan, highlights the distinctive personality style. Wu Changshuo, Wang Yiting, Zhao Shuru and Zeng et al Masaoki fellowship, sing poetry.
Ma Mengrong's paintings were praised at the Panama world exposition, the Belgian exposition and the French art exhibition. But short-lived, young talents. To this end, Mr. Yu Youren written: "love Meng hold person efforts, it never dies".

Known as "Yiyuan man" said Ma Gongyu Mr. Fang Yi was a long-term resident of Xiangyang road. Ma Gongyu deep cultivation, unique attainments. In the history of stone, the Zhou Ding Shang Jin, overnight hard diligence, no ink on the plain Yun Chi, stylus aspect in india. And after hard cultivation, have many pupils. Department of Xiling Seal-Engravers'Society member, director of Shanghai instruments and Literature Department of Chinese Chinese Daxia University professor. Ma Gongyu calligraphy all four mastery and self style, especially in the script and cursive script is intended to take bronze, imperial edition, Shigu style, beauty of simplicity, Qiyun Wordsworth muddy moose. It is like Jin cursive, energetic and vigorous lines, elegant and smooth harmony, the atmosphere is quite heroic, so his writing signs had at the time of unmatched calligraphy. Ma Gongyu seal tracking Qin imperial and Han India, gas Chun thick, sedate solemn and quiet, with memory charm momentum. The scholar Shen Yuzhong in "Yinren zayong" said said: "the back wall of old pen heap did not rest, talent flow pressure hoolock. Small Qin Xi. Times, from the French for jade seal." His paintings are also quite bookish, whether it is flowers, birds, landscapes and so on, are elegant and quiet Plaza, filled with poetic. Ma Gongyu after the liberation of former Shanghai museumlibrarian, Shanghai China, Chinese painting artist Writing Reform committee. As a professor of painting and calligraphy, Ma Gongyu writing rich, there is "Mo-tse", "Gu Zhou Shi Yi Gu between" history "and", "calligraphy", "ancient farming with Yu yinpu" etc.. In 30s, the painting and calligraphy stone, have a common characteristic: the knowledge rich, elegant temperament. Ma brothers work in Yilin, also due to this. So the humanistic spirit and art legacy, is worth the artists absorb method.

The author of "the history of calligraphy", "calligraphy", "Geng Shi Yi speech with". Painting, sculpture, poetry, all bearing the well-known, childhood from the parent school books, fifteen six year old will be able to book it, in the Zhejiang higher normal school, as Zhang Zongxiang appreciated, it refers to the sea. The horse generation calligraphers, who also from Qianlong two hundred years, Lin Chi class, mechanical Buchuo, talent, become a family tradition.
Zhuanshu "Qin Chao," patriarchal version "" stone drum ", ancient heavy, refined elegance. "From" Shimen "," official "Huashan", "Cao Quan" and the Han Dynasty stele, knot word lichtung, wave pick stretch, Sophie Yu gang. The real clock tutor, pen vigorous, Jieti broad, cursive Wang Youjun, Yi God, Yan beauty reuben. The skill of deep skill, be true, the world is pushing hands. In the fall of the middle-aged Shanghai, resigned to a word vend for a living, his book wind LaoLa tends to be concise, rigorous, and odd. Many life book stele. No, no hard pen like a horse, clumsy and not lag, move among force and soft, the most handy, most frequently used; also used Oolong pen, write to the opening of Zhangcao elegant charm. The seal from the Qin and Han Dynasties, the ancient Chinese white with small. Can a book and flowers.