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This is an awesome looking, vibrant and colorful. Can anyone tell me who is the artoist,and what do all these characters on the left side, bottom say. I cant imagine how long it would take to complete something so detailed and complete

It's a version of this handscroll by Shen Zhou (Ming artist) in the Liaoning Provincial Museum:
https://www.comuseum.com/product/shen-zhou-appreciating-potted-chrysanthemum-in-tranquility/

It got to the museum in Shenyang because it is one of a number of handscrolls in the imperial collection that the last emperor, Puyi, took with him when he left the Forbidden City and eventually became the puppet emperor of Japan's Manchukuo in northeast China.

The inscription at far left replicates the painter's inscription; the two "seals" to its immediate left belong to the painter. The inscription to the right reproduces the inscription written by the Qianlong emperor (18th c), who loved to inscribe pictures and other artworks in the collection. Almost all of the other "seals" here reproduce his own or related seals, except one belonging to the Jiaqing emperor (who ruled immediately after the Qianlong emperor).

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