Mary Rankin Swan

Mary Rankin Swan (c. 1855), also Mrs John Macallan Swan, was an Irish portrait artist.[1]

Mary Rankin Swan
Born
Mary Ann Rankin

c. 1855
Ireland
NationalityIrish
Known forPortraits of Children
Notable work
Sunbeams, The music Lesson

Life

Born about 1855 in Ireland, Mary Anne Rankin married the artist John Macallan Swan in Cork in 1884. She was an artist who specialised in depictions of children and occasionally sculptures.[2][3]

Together, they had two children, John Barye Rankin, an engineer who served as a Naval Volunteer Reserve [4][5] in the First World War, and Mary Alice, who went on to become a sculptor and medalist.[6]

The family lived in London.[6]

References
  1. Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day. Library of Alexandria. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-1-4655-2483-6.
  2. "Biographical information". V&A's collections.
  3. "Mapping the practice and profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951-John Macallan Swan". University of Glasgow History of Art.
  4. "Gazette" (PDF).
  5. "Lives of the first world war".
  6. "Mapping the practice and profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951- Mary Alice Swan"". University of Glasgow History of Art.
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