Artware Fineart has dated this piece to the 1920s.
Portrait of an Elegant Lady in a Chiffon dress seated under a Tree
signed with monogram
oil on canvas
36 x 25 in. (91 x 64 cm.)
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.
Artware Fineart has dated this piece to the 1920s.
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Circle of Sir James Jebusa Shannon, Ra 1862-1923 Portrait of an Elegant Lady Seated Under a Tree
