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CHARLES HAZELWOOD SHANNON (1865- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 801 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES HAZELWOOD SHANNON (1865- )  ,
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English artist, was born at
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Sleaford in
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Lincolnshire, the son of the Rev . Frederic Shannon, He attended the
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Lambeth school of
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art, and was subsequently considerably influenced by his friend Charles Ricketts and by the example of the
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great Venetians . In his early
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work he was addicted to a heavy low tone, which he abandoned subsequently for dearer and more transparent colour . He achieved great 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 . The
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Dublin Municipal Gallery owns his circular composition " The Bunch of Grapes " and " The Lady with the Green Fan " (portrait of Mrs Hacon) . His " Study in Grey " is at the Munich Gallery, a " Portrait of Mr Staats Forbes " at
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Bremen, and a " Souvenir of
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Van Dyck " at Melbourne . One of his most remarkable pictures is " The
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Toilet of
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Venus " in the collection of Lord Northcliffe .
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Complete sets of his lithographs and etchings have been acquired by the
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British Museum and the Berlin and
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Dresden
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print rooms . He was awarded a first-class gold medal at Munich in 1895 and a first-class
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silver medal in Paris in 1900 .

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