Shen Quan (沈铨 1682-1765), courtesy name Nanpin (南平), was a professional painter during the Qing Dynasty. Born into a poor family in Wuxing, Zhejiang Province, he firstly followed his father and started in paper flower craft. In his twenties, he started learning painting and specialized in the meticulous style following Lv Ji from the Ming dynasty.

His painting was in sumptuous colour, the subjects were often pines, cranes, bees, and monkeys, symbolizing auspiciousness, good fortune, and longevity. In 1731 he was invited by the emperor of Japan to teach painting in Japan, he stayed in Nagasaki for two years with two of his disciples, Zheng Pei and Gao Jun. His painting style became highly influential in Japan and was named as "Nanpin style".  He returned to China as a celebrated painter and painted many paintings for the court, he settled down in Suzhou in his late years and died at the age of 83.