Wu Hu-Fan was born in Suzhou of China’s Jiangshu Province. He was a renowned landscape and floral painter, calligraphist, and appraiser, and the grandson of famous calligrapher and painter Wu Dacheng. In his early days, he was known as “South Wu, North Pu” alongside famed Northern China painter Pu Ru; he later also gained the joint title of “3 Wus, 1 Feng”alongside Wu Zishen, Wu Daichou, and Feng Chaoran. As an appraiser, Wu and collector/appraiser Qian Jingtang are known as “The 2 Great Walls of Appraisal”.