Charles Haslewood Shannon

Charles Haslewood Shannon RA[2] (26 April 1863 – 18 March 1937) was an English artist.[3] He became best known for his portraits, which can be found in several major European collections, including the National Portrait Gallery in London.

For other people named Charles Shannon, see Charles Shannon.

Charles Haslewood Shannon
Self-portrait, 1897
Born26 April 1863
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England
Died18 March 1937 (1937-03-19) (aged 73)
Kew, London
Resting placeSt Botolph's Church, Quarrington[1]
EducationLambeth School of Art

Early life

Shannon was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, the son of the Rev. Frederick William Shannon, Rector of Quarrington, and Catherine Emma Manthorp, the daughter of a surgeon, Daniel Levett Manthorp.[1]

Schools and training

Shannon was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead where he played cricket in the first XI.[3][4] He later attended the City and Guilds of London Art School (then known as South London School of Technical Art, formerly Lambeth School of Art) and was subsequently much influenced by a lifetime partner, Charles Ricketts[5] and by the example of the great Venetians. In his early work he was addicted to a heavy, low tone, which he abandoned subsequently for clearer and more transparent colour. He achieved much success with his portraits and his Giorgionesque figure compositions, which are marked by a classic sense of style, and with his etchings and lithographic designs.[6]

Career
Charles Haslewood Shannon; Charles de Sousy Ricketts by George Charles Beresford

The Dublin Municipal Gallery owns his circular composition The Bunch of Grapes and The Lady with the Green Fan (portrait of Mrs Hacon). Another of his subjects was the popular novelist Mary Frances Dowdall. His Study in Grey is at the Munich Gallery, a Portrait of Mr Staats Forbes at Bremen, and Souvenir of Van Dyck at Melbourne. One of his most remarkable pictures is The Toilet of Venus in the collection of Lord Northcliffe. Several of his portrait works are on display in the National Portrait Gallery in London.[6]

Complete sets of his lithographs and etchings have been acquired by the British Museum and the Berlin and Dresden print rooms. He was awarded a first-class gold medal at Munich in 1895 and a first-class silver medal in Paris in 1900.[6] He was a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers.[7]

Later life

Shannon became disabled in 1928 after a fall while hanging a picture. The neurological damage that resulted caused amnesia and ended his career.[8]

References
  1. Darracott, Joseph. "Shannon, Charles Haslewood (1863–1937)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36038. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "Royal Academy of Arts Collections - Home".
  3. "Mr. Shannon R.A., Lithographer and Painter". The Times. 19 March 1937. p. 18.
  4. St John's School, Leatherhead, School Register, 1852–1904. Published April 1904, p. 64.
  5. Ray, Gordon Norton (1992), The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, Courier Dover Publications, p. 160, ISBN 0-486-26955-8.
  6. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Shannon, Charles Hazelwood" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 801.
  7. "The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. Glasgow University. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  8. The Sir Edmund and Lady Davis Presentation: A Gift of British Art to South Africa, South African National Gallery, 1999
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