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ok, the first two photos contain the information that might help identify the artist. unfortunately I can hardly read it, so if you have any photoshop type tools/filters at your disposal please apply them. the two written characters are likely either the artist's given name or a nickname he took for himself; the artist's full name is on the seal I would think.
The third seal is a third "Qianlong" seal. The Qianlong emperor was notorious for impressing seals and writing long poetic inscriptions on paintings in the imperial collection. that his seals are round or oval isn't the issue. the seals on your painting imitate seals he is known to have used on paintings, but ordinarily they were applied in a certain grouping (often of five seals), including an inventory seal or two. while it's also true that the Xuantong emperor would ordinarily impress his seal in a less conspicuous location as here, underneath one of the "Qianlong" seals, if the painting was in the imperial collection for the Qianlong-Xuantong reign periods there should be evidence of the inventory seals as well, which aren't here.
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