DOI issue:
No. 40 (July, 1896)
DOI article:Hind, Charles Lewis: The work of J. J. Shannon
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0087
The Work of J. J. Shannon
best express the character of a sitter. They prefer gone the round of Paris, Antwerp and Munich. As
to consider how they can soonest picture him in it was he quickly threw off the Poynter and Sparks
fewest brush-marks. Nobody thinks of dividing tradition and studied in the best of all schools
the Great Masters into two classes—Craftsmen and —that in which the masters are a man's own eyes
Men of Feeling. Botticelli, Rembrandt, Mantegna, and brains. The models he placed before himself
brood luminously were Velasquez,
through the ages Bastien Lepage
as spirits made and Whistler, and
rounded and per- to the influence of
feet by their own these great ones
endeavour during H^^^^^^H he has remained
life. In them faithful and grate-
sentiment and Wu'*!' Jl ful.
technique were so * 4| The fifteen odd
mingled that we Mr^J years since Mr.
never pause to Shannon began to
consider where the paint has seen the
one begins or the j' rapid rise and the
other ends. But no less rapid de-
to-day we are all cline of Paris as
either in the camp the great Art
with Puvis de School of the
Chavannes, Dag- world. Her sons
nan Bouveret, Pjr ,1 have brought the
Burne-Jones, and KB ,Jp technical business
Uhde, in the HP^^mI °f painting to a
t ]■ e n c he s w i t h Hi'iMitffi Hyf! point of mastery
Manet, Degas,and M 'M \W^^aH undreamt of
Sargent. If Mr. couple of genera-
Shannon can run Br* M tions ago, and
his little brightly thousands of young
polished Catling- V \ M Englishmen have
gun between the I & M taken full ad van-
two battalions, BbM^J BL. JB|1| tage of the admir-
and keep it there able training the
by virtue of being French masters
at one with both I are so generous
camp and trench, and conscientious
he should—well, in imparting. The
it opens out a fine effect upon our
career for him. native art has been
As a painter enormous. For
Mr. Shannon is one youth who
practically self- _ '__ painted decently a
taught. The most dozen years ago
devoted supporter portrait of the late mr. henry vigne by j. j. shannon there are now a
of the South Ken- hundred. The
sington schools could hardly maintain that his Englishman, by virtue of his temperament, is able to
art reflects aught of their teaching. It is more to advance further than his teacher. The Gaul stops
the point to wonder that he should be what he is at technique, the Englishman, generally an Idealist,
considering the academic methods that were drilled adds to that good groundwork something of that
into him at South Kensington. But there, at light that never was_on sea or shore, a sense of the
least, he learnt to draw. It is probable that his beauty and the hidden meaning of life which he
manner to-day would not be very different had he inherits from his Puritanic and poetic ancestors.
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best express the character of a sitter. They prefer gone the round of Paris, Antwerp and Munich. As
to consider how they can soonest picture him in it was he quickly threw off the Poynter and Sparks
fewest brush-marks. Nobody thinks of dividing tradition and studied in the best of all schools
the Great Masters into two classes—Craftsmen and —that in which the masters are a man's own eyes
Men of Feeling. Botticelli, Rembrandt, Mantegna, and brains. The models he placed before himself
brood luminously were Velasquez,
through the ages Bastien Lepage
as spirits made and Whistler, and
rounded and per- to the influence of
feet by their own these great ones
endeavour during H^^^^^^H he has remained
life. In them faithful and grate-
sentiment and Wu'*!' Jl ful.
technique were so * 4| The fifteen odd
mingled that we Mr^J years since Mr.
never pause to Shannon began to
consider where the paint has seen the
one begins or the j' rapid rise and the
other ends. But no less rapid de-
to-day we are all cline of Paris as
either in the camp the great Art
with Puvis de School of the
Chavannes, Dag- world. Her sons
nan Bouveret, Pjr ,1 have brought the
Burne-Jones, and KB ,Jp technical business
Uhde, in the HP^^mI °f painting to a
t ]■ e n c he s w i t h Hi'iMitffi Hyf! point of mastery
Manet, Degas,and M 'M \W^^aH undreamt of
Sargent. If Mr. couple of genera-
Shannon can run Br* M tions ago, and
his little brightly thousands of young
polished Catling- V \ M Englishmen have
gun between the I & M taken full ad van-
two battalions, BbM^J BL. JB|1| tage of the admir-
and keep it there able training the
by virtue of being French masters
at one with both I are so generous
camp and trench, and conscientious
he should—well, in imparting. The
it opens out a fine effect upon our
career for him. native art has been
As a painter enormous. For
Mr. Shannon is one youth who
practically self- _ '__ painted decently a
taught. The most dozen years ago
devoted supporter portrait of the late mr. henry vigne by j. j. shannon there are now a
of the South Ken- hundred. The
sington schools could hardly maintain that his Englishman, by virtue of his temperament, is able to
art reflects aught of their teaching. It is more to advance further than his teacher. The Gaul stops
the point to wonder that he should be what he is at technique, the Englishman, generally an Idealist,
considering the academic methods that were drilled adds to that good groundwork something of that
into him at South Kensington. But there, at light that never was_on sea or shore, a sense of the
least, he learnt to draw. It is probable that his beauty and the hidden meaning of life which he
manner to-day would not be very different had he inherits from his Puritanic and poetic ancestors.
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