James Jebusa Shannon
Leading Anglo-American portrait painter
Sir James Jebusa Shannon was an Anglo-American artist. Shannon was born in Auburn, New York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada. When he was sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after three years won the gold medal for figure painting. His portrait of the Hon. Horatia Stopford, one of the queen's maids of honour, attracted attention at the Royal Academy in 1881, and in 1887 his portrait of Henry Vigne in hunting costume was one of the successes of the exhibition, subsequently securing medals for the artist at Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. He soon became one of the leading portrait painters in London. He was one of the first members of the New English Art Club, a founder member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and in 1897 was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and RA in 1909. His picture The Flower Girl was bought in 1901 for the national collection at Tate. Shannon has paintings in the collection of a several British institutions including Sheffield, Derby Art Gallery, Glasgow Museum and Bradford Museum. A memorial to him lies in St James's Church, Piccadilly.
Artworks by this artist
- Still life of flowers, a statue and a globe on a mantelpiece
- Portraits Of Lorna And Dorothy Bell, Daughters Of W. Heward Bell, Esq.
- The Drawing Room circa 1900
- Florence Shannon circa 1905
- Portrait of Cecilia Tower 1889
- Portrait of Miss Aline Henderson (Mrs J.T. Wigan) 1911
- Contemplation
- Nora McMullen Mellon (Mrs. Andrew W. Mellon) 1910
- On the Dunes (Lady Shannon and Kitty) ca. 1900-1910
- Study for ‘Madonna and Child’ circa 1892
- Mary Rosamond Anstruther (1877–1958), Mrs Edward Windsor Hussey 1910
- Portrait of a lady
- Portrait of an elderly woman
- Estelle 1886
- Mother and Child (Lady Shannon and Kitty) ca. 1900-1910
- At the piano
- George Hitchcock working in his garden in Egmond between 1891 and 1895
- Portrait of a lady.
- The Green Apple
- In repose