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Hi, I purchase this new scroll from Japan but I couldn't get the name of the artist. I asked some Japanese friends but they couldn't get his name:
"could read it as "雪堂”, and searched name "雪堂" then hit 2 person, one is "森雪堂" the other is "藤井雪堂”. Compared with yours...seems "森雪堂".
But "rakkan"=stamps, or signature a little bit different...
and last character I couldn't read, looks like "書" or.."翁"

I love this calligraphic painting style, so I'm interested to know more about that artist if possible. Thanks in advance!

雪堂 is correct.
The painter 藤井雪堂 Fujii Setsudou died in 1839 at age 62. If you enter the characters in Google and look in "images" you will see a painting of a bird (white dove?) on a flowering plum branch which includes a seal identical to yours, so I think Fuji is your guy. However the link to the photo (https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQAyZEtA_II7EWPjuBeCmSMfFeMKw_yTqcItdF-RNpdnhNB28vZ3Q) seems to be broken and the website on which it appears is a long blog of various paintings with broken image links, so it will take some wading through to find details: http://kakz.blogoo.ne.jp/d2013-11.html

However if you are interested primarily in pictures of dragons in this style you will find many Japanese pictures of this sort. Culturally the touchstone is the work of Chinese painter Chen Rong. His Nine Dragons scroll in Boston is the best known of this type: https://scrolls.uchicago.edu/scroll/nine-dragons

or you can save all actual research and go to Auctionilla, where you can find lots of groovy information and maybe buy something from one of the auction sites they are promoting. what could be better?

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