Sir James Jebusa Shannon, R.A., R.B.A. (1862-1923)
Sir James Jebusa Shannon, R.A., R.B.A. (1862-1923) Born in rural Auburn, New York, the highly successful society portrait painter Sir James Jebusa Shannon (1862-1923) spent his youth in Canada. In 1878, at the age of sixteen, he travelled alone to England, where he trained under Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919) at the South Kensington School of Art (now the Royal College of Art) until 1881. The first of his many international honours was a gold medal at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. Over the course of his career he engaged a variety of styles and exhibited widely at such venues as the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery, the New English Art Club, and especially the London Royal Academy of Arts, to which he was elected a full academician in 1909. Shannon was a founding member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters of which he was president from 1910 to 1923. His contributions to the arts were officially recognized when he received a knighthood from King George V in 1922. Shannon’s art is represented in major public and private collections throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including Tate Britain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and The Royal Academy of Arts. We are grateful to Barbara Dayer Gallati for her help in preparing the catalogue entries for these works.
Sir James Jebusa Shannon, R.A., R.B.A. (1862-1923)

The Drawing Room, circa 1900

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Sir James Jebusa Shannon, R.A., R.B.A. (1862-1923)
The Drawing Room, circa 1900
with inscription 'LADY SHANNON' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
36 x 28 in. (91.5 x 71.1 cm.)
來源
The artist, and by descent.

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Shannon’s rapid rise in the London art world was witnessed by his purchase of a highly desirable house in Holland Park Road, next door to the home and studio of Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896), the president of the Royal Academy. Under an 1892 leasehold agreement, Shannon undertook to alter the farmhouse and build a studio, a project resulting in a double-fronted structure with two main entrances, one leading to the studio and the other to the family’s household spaces. An uncommon example of domestic genre in Shannon’s output, the painting provides an intimate view of family life and depicts one end of the Shannons’ large drawing room where Kitty, the artist's daughter (in profile), and a young friend are quietly occupied, while it is presumably Florence, the artist's wife, who arranges flowers in the background.

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