Min Zhen (; 1730–?; courtesy name Zheng Zhai 正齋) was a Chinese painter and seal carver born in

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, who spent most of his life in

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. He was noted for painting human figures and doing occasional finger painting. He was orphaned at an early age and is sometimes associated with the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.

References

*''Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford''(118-121)

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*''Cultural China'

1730 births People from Nanchang Qing dynasty painters Year of death unknown Painters from Jiangxi Chinese seal artists {{China-painter-stub