James Jebusa Shannon

Sir James Jebusa Shannon CBE RA ( * 1862 in Auburn, New York, † April 23, 1923 in London) was an Anglo -American painter.

Life

James Jebusa Shannon was the son of Irish parents. In 1870 the family moved to St. Catherines, Ontario. His parents recognized his artistic talent early on and he received private drawing and painting lessons at the local painter William E. Wright, who advised him strongly to continue studying in London. In 1878 he traveled to England and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Sir Edward Poynter. Soon after Shannon was considered the most gifted student of Poynter and received 1881-1882 orders from Queen Victoria to portray them. Due to his success as a portrait painter, his departure was delayed to Canada out again and again. In 1886 James Jebusa Shannon married in London Lady Florence Mary Cartwright; a year later their daughter Kitty and daughter Marjorie was born in 1890. In the following years he painted her on many occasions.

In the mid-1880s, Shannon dominated together with his American fellow painter John Singer Sargent, the British portraiture. Shannon's popularity was encouraged by the patronage of Lady Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland ( 1856-1937 ). He had his studio in Holland Park Road in London. In 1904 he traveled with his family for three years in the United States.

Awards

Works (selection)

Portrait of Iris, oil on canvas (1891 ), Private Collection

Portrait Of Ruby Miller, oil on canvas (1890), Private Collection

In spring, oil on canvas (1896 ), Private Collection

Portrait of Magnolia, oil on canvas (1899 ), Metropolitan Museum, New York

Portrait of Violet, Duchess of Rutland, oil on canvas ( 1900)

The flower girl, oil on canvas (1900), Tate Gallery, London

Nora Ward and Kitty Shannon, oil on canvas (1900/1905), private collection

Portrait of Phil May, oil on canvas (1902 ), Tate Gallery, London

On the dune ( Lady Shannon and Kitty ), oil on canvas ( 1910), Smithsonian American Art Museum