马荃，字江香，江苏常熟人。元驭（1669—1722）女（一作元驭孙女），逸妹。龚克和妻。工花卉，妙得家法。其夫亦工书、画，偕游京师，以绘事给衣食，颇怡。夫亡归里，绸缠染翰，饮冰茹茶，而名益高，四方以缣素兼金求画者益聚。常蓄婢数人，悉令调铅杀粉。而琴川多贵游士女，皆来求授指法。时常州恽冰画以没骨名，而江香以勾染名，江南人谓之双绝。康熙三十五年（1696）作花卉草虫册十二页，乾隆四年（1739）作琳池草虫扇。马荃代表作品价位2008年行情在3—5万/平尺，市场升值潜力较大，为很多书画收藏家所追捧。
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Ma Quan, the word Jiang Xiang, Jiangsu Changshu people. Yuan Yu (1669-1722) female (one for Yuan Yu granddaughter), Yi Mei. Gong Ke and his wife. Work flowers, wonderful home law. His husband also work books, paintings, travel with the capital, to paint things to food and clothing, rather Yi. Fu died in the home, the silk wrapped around John, drink ice Ru tea, and the name benefits high, the Quartet to the prime and gold painting seekers together. Often the number of people to keep maid, that lead to kill lead powder. The more expensive Guchuan tour women, are to seek fingering. Changzhou Yunbing painting to no bone name, and Jiang Xiang to hook dyeing name, Jiangnan that the double must. Kangxi thirty-five years (1696) for the flowers grass insects twelve pages, four years of Qianlong (1739) for Lin Chi grass fan. Ma Quan works on behalf of the price in 2008 in the 3-5 million / square foot, the market potential for greater appreciation for the many collectors sought after painting and calligraphy.