# Wang Hui artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/wang-hui/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:23:52.799Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Movements: Orthodox school of Chinese painting, Four Wangs
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Wang Hui](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/%E7%8E%8B%E7%BF%AC.jpg)
清叶衍兰辑摹，黄小泉绘。 · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E7%8E%8B%E7%BF%AC.jpg

## About Wang Hui

Wang Hui (1632–1717) was a Chinese landscape painter whose career belongs to the transition from the late Ming to the early Qing period. He is associated with the Four Wangs and the orthodox tradition in Chinese painting, a historical context in which engagement with earlier artistic models was especially important. Landscape is the subject most consistently identified in the collected sources. Collectors and cataloguers may encounter his work under Wang Hui or under names and transliterations including Shigu, Gengyan, Wang Shigu, and Wang Shih-ku. Those variants are valuable for entity matching, but the common romanization “Wang Hui” also creates a risk of confusing the painter with unrelated people. An appraisal should therefore connect the individual object to the historical artist through its catalog attribution and supporting evidence, rather than relying on the name alone. The available authority records establish a useful identity framework for researching works offered under these variants.

## Common works and media

The collected sources most clearly associate Wang Hui with landscape painting and the orthodox tradition of Chinese art. Works encountered in appraisal or auction research may be cataloged under several names and transliterations, especially Shigu, Gengyan, Wang Shigu, or Wang Shih-ku. The source pack does not establish more granular information about supports, formats, editions, or other media, so those characteristics should be documented from the object and its original catalog record rather than inferred from the artist name.

## Market and appraisal context

Auction evidence for Wang Hui should be interpreted only after confirming that a lot refers to the Qing-dynasty landscape painter. Catalog attribution and name variants are central because records may appear under Wang Hui, Shigu, Gengyan, or alternative transliterations. Comparable results are most useful when the attributed artist, work type, landscape subject, sale date, and catalog context align. The collected pack does not provide lot-level information about support, dimensions, inscriptions, seals, condition, provenance, or the precise strength of attribution; those details should be checked in original auction catalogues and physical documentation. The available evidence supports an identity and comparison framework, not a price prediction or authentication conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716222
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500327902
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/65330434/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Hui_(Qing_dynasty)
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Hui
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Hui_(Maler)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/wang-hui/