James Jebusa Shannon. Portrait of Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners Marchioness Anglesey.

James Jebusa Shannon. Portrait of Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners Marchioness Anglesey.

James Jebusa Shannon. Portrait of Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners Viscountess Norwich.

1880. James Jebusa Shannon (age 17). Portarit of Miss Horatia Stopford

1889. James Jebusa Shannon (age 26). Portrait of Violet Lindsay Duchess Rutland (age 32).

1905. James Jebusa Shannon (age 42). Portrait of Eliza Anthony Hoppin Gammell. This work was exhibited alongside a portrait of the sitter’s daughter, Virginia Gammell Cross, at an exhibition of portraits by Shannon at Knoedler Gallery in New York in 1906. The reviewer for the New York Times wrote, “The dress in the portrait of Miss Virginia Gammell of Providence is vividly, richly wrought by clear, deft strokes that sometimes make one think of Sargent... So likewise is the dress of Mrs. Robert I. Gammell full of spirit and wisdom in the deft rendering of the stuff” (New York Times, March 6, 1906, p. 5).

Eliza Anthony Hoppin Gammell (1859-1938) of Providence, Rhode Island was married to Mr. Robert Ives Gammell (1852-1915). The sitter’s maternal great-grandfather was William Jones of Newport, who was a captain in Colonel Lippitt’s Rhode Island regiment until it was disbanded in 1777. He served as a marine on the Providence until she was captured at Charleston. The Gammells, a prominent banking family in Providence, also spent much of their time in Newport.

Around 1905. James Jebusa Shannon (age 42). Portrait of Marguerite Helen Neville Baroness Hastings (age 18).

Marguerite Helen Neville Baroness Hastings: In 1887 she was born to Henry Neville 3rd Marquess Abergavenny and Maud Augusta Beckett Dickinson. On 11 Feb 1907 Albert Edward Astley 21st Baron Hastings and she were married. She by marriage Baroness Hastings. She the daughter of Henry Neville 3rd Marquess Abergavenny and Maud Augusta Beckett Dickinson. In 1975 Marguerite Helen Neville Baroness Hastings died.

Around 1914. James Jebusa Shannon (age 51). Portrait of Winifred Contance Hester Paget (age 33).

Winifred Contance Hester Paget: In 1881 she was born to Alexander Victor Paget. On 23 Apr 1904 Charles Chetwynd-Talbot and she were married. He the son of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot 20th Earl of Shrewsbury 5th Earl Talbot and Ellen Palmer Morewood Countess Shrewsbury Waterford Talbot. On 18 Apr 1965 Winifred Contance Hester Paget died.

1918. James Jebusa Shannon (age 55). Portrait of Violet Lindsay Duchess Rutland (age 61).

Around 1919. James Jebusa Shannon (age 56). Self-portrait.