Sir James Jebusa Shannon, RA, RBA, RHA (British, 1862-1923)
The Flower Girl, c. 1900
Oil paint on canvas
838 x 660 mm
Tate
The Flower Girl; painted while the artist and his family were on holiday at Eastbourne in 1900. The woman was a flower girl whom they met regularly every morning on their way down to the beach; she consented to sit to Shannon in her ordinary working clothes and is shown nursing her baby. The artist's daughter Kitty recalls that her father told the flower girl to come ‘exactly as you are, baby, basket of flowers, the white blouse with the big black spots and old battered straw hat’. More on this painting
Sir James Jebusa Shannon RA
(1862–1923), Anglo-American artist, 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
Gallery of British Art. Shannon has paintings in the collection of a several
British institutions including Sheffield, Derby Art Gallery, Glasgow Museum and
Bradford Museum. More James Jebusa Shannon
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