Text this colour is a link for Members only. Support us by becoming a Member for only £3 a month by joining our 'Buy Me A Coffee page'; Membership gives you access to all content and removes ads.
Text this colour links to Pages. Text this colour links to Family Trees.
Place the mouse over images to see a larger image. If the image is a painting click to see the painter's Biography Page. Move the mouse off the image to close the popup.
Place the mouse over links to see a preview of the Page. Move the mouse off the link to close the popup.
James Jebusa Shannon 1862-1923 is in Painters.
On 3rd February 1862 James Jebusa Shannon was born at Auburn, New York. Around the aged of six he moved with his family to Canada. Aged around sixteen he moved to England to study at South Kensington.
1880. James Jebusa Shannon (age 17). Portrait of Miss Horatia Stopford (age 45).
July 1880. James Jebusa Shannon (age 18). Portrait of Horatia Stopford (age 45). Located in the Queen's Sitting Room, Osborne House, Isle of Wight. The painting was commissioned by Queen Victoria (age 61).
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 11th February 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. They were fourth cousin once removed. In 1975 Marguerite Helen Neville Baroness Hastings died.
Around 1914. James Jebusa Shannon (age 51). Portrait of Winifred Contance Hester Paget (age 32).
1918. James Jebusa Shannon (age 55). Portrait of Violet Lindsay Duchess Rutland (age 61).
Around 1919. James Jebusa Shannon (age 56). Self-portrait.
Before 6th March 1923. James Jebusa Shannon (age 61). Portrait of Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners Viscountess Norwich (age 31).
Before 6th March 1923. James Jebusa Shannon (age 61). Portrait of Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners Marchioness Anglesey (age 39).
Before 6th March 1923. James Jebusa Shannon (age 61). Portrait of Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners Marchioness Anglesey (age 39).
On 6th March 1923 James Jebusa Shannon (age 61) died.