Ma Quan | |||||||||
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馬荃 | |||||||||
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| Notable work | Flowers and Plants (花卉图) (1711) Guanyin's Mien (观音像) (1734) Birds and Flowers (花鸟图) (1755) | ||||||||
| Style | Bird-and-flower painting | ||||||||
| Spouse | Gong Kehe (龚克和) | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 馬荃 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马荃 | ||||||||
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| Jiangxiang | |||||||||
| Chinese | 江香 | ||||||||
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Ma Quan (Chinese: 馬荃, dates unknown), courtesy name Jiangxiang (Chinese: 江香), was a Qing painter who lived during the late 17th–18th centuries, specialising in bird and flower painting. As a female artist who sold her paintings, Ma's art style is markedly different from both that of the imperial court and contemporary "talented young ladies" (Chinese: 名媛).[1]