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JAMES JEBUSA SHANNON (1862- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 801 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES JEBUSA SHANNON (1862- )  , Anglo-
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American artist, was born at Auburn, New York, in 1862; and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to
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Canada . When he was sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South
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Kensington, and after three years won the gold medal for figure
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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
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exhibition, subsequently securing medals for the artist at Paris, Berlin and Vienna . He soon became one of the leading portrait painters in
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London . He was one of the first members of the New
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English
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Art Club, and in 1897 was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and R.A. in 1909 . His picture, " The Flower Girl," was bought in 19or for the
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National Gallery of
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British Art .

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