# Shen Quan artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/shen-quan/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:02:28.466Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Common media: Painting

## About Shen Quan

Shen Quan (1682–1760) was a Chinese painter associated with the Qing dynasty. Sources also identify Nanpin as his courtesy name and Hengzhai as a sobriquet; the transliterations Chen Ts'iuan and Shên Ch'üan may also appear in catalog records. The collected material places him in Nagasaki for about two years and connects his teaching there with realistic flower-and-bird subjects. His work influenced Japanese Edo-period art, making him relevant to histories of artistic exchange between China and Japan as well as to Qing painting. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter his name in connection with paintings of flowers and birds, sometimes cataloged under alternate romanizations or art names. The present source pack is strongest on basic identity and historical context, but it lacks a museum object record or scholarly catalogue excerpt that would support a fuller account of his chronology, workshop practice, individual works, or stylistic development.

## Common works and media

Available sources identify Shen Quan as a painter and specifically connect his Nagasaki teaching with realistic flower-and-bird subjects. For page and appraisal matching, the safest common-work labels are Chinese painting and flower-and-bird painting. The pack does not establish a reliable basis for listing prints, sculpture, ceramics, editions, posters, or other categories. The collected Wikimedia candidates depict artworks or calligraphy rather than the artist himself.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily signal indicates 274 auction records associated with this artist page, but the pack does not expose lot-level descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, attribution language, or auction-house commentary. An appraisal should therefore begin by resolving the artist's alternate names and confirming that a candidate work belongs to the historical Shen Quan record rather than a namesake or later attribution. Comparisons should be limited to public auction lots with closely matching work type and subject, especially flower-and-bird painting, while preserving each auction house's exact attribution wording. This source pack does not support a price forecast, trend claim, or ranking of condition, provenance, date, format, or other possible value drivers.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity data with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile distinguishes sourced identity facts from market signals and unresolved authority questions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2351090
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Quan
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Quan
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Quan
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79025253
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb18163795v
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/shen-quan/