DOI Heft:
No. 40 (July, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Hind, Charles Lewis: The work of J. J. Shannon
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0083
The Work of J. J. Shannon
wont, hinted that Mr. Shannon's art was limited with their brilliant ancestors, and the new master
to these presentments of high-born dames, he must see to it that the comparison is not odious,
retorted by painting the fine head of the veteran Fashionable sitters will not understand that to paint
violinist, the sympathetic presentment of showily at the expense of truth is death to Art, and
Hoffmann, with its subtle arrangement of white that the deft expression on canvas of insight into
tones, and the de- even a shallow cha-
lightful Iris standing racter is a hundred
by the brookside, a times better worth
picture that Romney doing and having
would not have been than the flattering
loth to sign. In the arrangement of
best of Mr. Shannon's Wk ^mL* charms where none
portraits there has A. Mk^ exist. In these days,
always lurked the fe' when meritricious
suggestion that these •" imitations of Gains-
were far from show- borough and Rey-
ing the finality'of his nolds and Romney
skill. Little canvases reap golden rewards,
from his brush ex- it is something for
hibited at the New Mr. Shannon to be
English Art Club, • able to say that he
and particularly that ■' * ■ has always striven to
charming study of be an artist first and
child-life called a portrait-painter
Tales from the afterwards. Instead
fungle, made his of selecting their
admirers hope that dress, coiffure, and
one day he would be complexion before
able to devote his entering the studio,
attention to a more it would be better if
sensitive and less certain sitters would
topical side of his art. yield themselves
By an ingenuity of I* trustfully to the
composition, and a artistic instincts of
happy arrangement the painter. " You
of backgrounds, Mr. ^^^B^^^^te M|l are fresh and breezy,"
the least promising of and haggard ; I'll
his sitters pictorial, paint your face in
respect the portrait- S& Mr. Shannon was
painter has small born in New Eng-
freedom of choice. land. He came to
The daughters of "on the stairs" from a painting by j. j. shannon England in his teens,
noble houses come and entered, of all
to the limner's studio with the rows of loveli- places in the world, at the South Kensington
ness of their fair ancestors fresh in their memories, schools, where he painted under Mr. Poynter and
The type has probably degenerated since Gains- Mr. Sparks. There he won the gold medal in 1880.
borough transferred immortal beauties to immortal About this time her Majesty the Queen, desirous
canvas. Our modern maidens may be haggard, or of having the portrait of one of her Maids of
dowdy, or lustreless of eye, yet the portrait to be Honour painted, applied to the directors of South
painted of them is destined to hang cheek by jowl Kensington for the name of a young artist of
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wont, hinted that Mr. Shannon's art was limited with their brilliant ancestors, and the new master
to these presentments of high-born dames, he must see to it that the comparison is not odious,
retorted by painting the fine head of the veteran Fashionable sitters will not understand that to paint
violinist, the sympathetic presentment of showily at the expense of truth is death to Art, and
Hoffmann, with its subtle arrangement of white that the deft expression on canvas of insight into
tones, and the de- even a shallow cha-
lightful Iris standing racter is a hundred
by the brookside, a times better worth
picture that Romney doing and having
would not have been than the flattering
loth to sign. In the arrangement of
best of Mr. Shannon's Wk ^mL* charms where none
portraits there has A. Mk^ exist. In these days,
always lurked the fe' when meritricious
suggestion that these •" imitations of Gains-
were far from show- borough and Rey-
ing the finality'of his nolds and Romney
skill. Little canvases reap golden rewards,
from his brush ex- it is something for
hibited at the New Mr. Shannon to be
English Art Club, • able to say that he
and particularly that ■' * ■ has always striven to
charming study of be an artist first and
child-life called a portrait-painter
Tales from the afterwards. Instead
fungle, made his of selecting their
admirers hope that dress, coiffure, and
one day he would be complexion before
able to devote his entering the studio,
attention to a more it would be better if
sensitive and less certain sitters would
topical side of his art. yield themselves
By an ingenuity of I* trustfully to the
composition, and a artistic instincts of
happy arrangement the painter. " You
of backgrounds, Mr. ^^^B^^^^te M|l are fresh and breezy,"
the least promising of and haggard ; I'll
his sitters pictorial, paint your face in
respect the portrait- S& Mr. Shannon was
painter has small born in New Eng-
freedom of choice. land. He came to
The daughters of "on the stairs" from a painting by j. j. shannon England in his teens,
noble houses come and entered, of all
to the limner's studio with the rows of loveli- places in the world, at the South Kensington
ness of their fair ancestors fresh in their memories, schools, where he painted under Mr. Poynter and
The type has probably degenerated since Gains- Mr. Sparks. There he won the gold medal in 1880.
borough transferred immortal beauties to immortal About this time her Majesty the Queen, desirous
canvas. Our modern maidens may be haggard, or of having the portrait of one of her Maids of
dowdy, or lustreless of eye, yet the portrait to be Honour painted, applied to the directors of South
painted of them is destined to hang cheek by jowl Kensington for the name of a young artist of
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