# Shuren Chen artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/shuren-chen/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:50:17.751Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Shuren Chen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Chen_Shuren.jpg)
Unknown: scanned by 天竺鼠 ( talk ) 19:36, 27 December 2010 (UTC) · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chen_Shuren.jpg

## About Shuren Chen

Shuren Chen is the public-name form used here for Chen Shuren, a Chinese painter whose authority records also catalogue him as Ch'en Shu-jen and under several personal and art names. Wikidata gives 1883–1948, while VIAF clusters numerous records using 1884–1948; this birth-year discrepancy should remain visible in cataloguing rather than be silently resolved. The collected biographical material identifies his birth name as Chen Zhe, a later name as Chen Shao, and art names including De'an Laoren, Jiawai Yuzi, and Ershan Shanqiao. A Japanese-language biographical entry connects him with the Lingnan school, but the present source pack lacks institution-grade descriptive text confirming that association, so it is not asserted as a structured movement here. Collectors may encounter his work under multiple romanizations and names, making authority-record matching especially important when comparing catalogues and auction entries. Current evidence is strongest on identity and chronology and thinner on documented media, subjects, training, and career history.

## Common works and media

The source pack securely identifies Chen as a painter, so paintings are the only work type this profile can presently describe with confidence. It does not establish particular supports, techniques, subjects, editions, series, or output in prints, sculpture, or ceramics. Auction entries using variant names or romanizations should be reconciled before works are grouped as comparable examples.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal research should begin by confirming that a work catalogued as Shuren Chen, Chen Shuren, or Ch'en Shu-jen refers to the artist represented by the cited authority cluster. Variant art names and the unresolved 1883/1884 birth-year difference can complicate catalogue matching. The collected pack supports paintings as a general auction category, but it does not provide enough public auction-house detail to characterize favored media, subjects, periods, price levels, or market direction. Any valuation should therefore rely on verified object-specific evidence and genuinely comparable public sales rather than inference from this identity profile. Sale dates, realized prices, lot descriptions, and attribution language should be examined directly when suitable records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Shuren Chen, the present public source pack provides stronger identity evidence than market or object-level evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10310062
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/53081150/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500333220
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shuren
- Wikipedia: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E6%A8%B9%E4%BA%BA
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/shuren-chen/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chen_Shuren.jpg