Artist

James Jebusa Shannon

born Auburn, NY 1862-died London, England 1923
Orlando Rouland, <i>J. J. Shannon, R. A.</i>, ca. 1910, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of the artist 1917.5.1.
Orlando Rouland, J. J. Shannon, R. A., ca. 1910, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of the artist 1917.5.1.
Also known as
  • Sir James Jebusa Shannon
  • J. J. Shannon
Born
Auburn, New York, United States
Died
London, England
Biography

[T]his expatriate artist living in Britain enjoyed a stellar reputation and was often compared to another Gilded Age artist, John Singer Sargent. Supported by the patronage of Queen Victoria, [James Jebusa] Shannon enjoyed commercial success that brought riches to his family. After a lucrative career and a fashionable existence spent gambling in Monte Carlo, motoring in his Rolls Royce, and entertaining friends, the painter was knighted in 1922, the year before his death.

Elizabeth Prelinger The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (New York and Washington, D.C.: Watson-Guptill Publications, in cooperation with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2000)

Works by this artist (2 items)

Robert Havell, Jr., Panoramic View of New York, 1844, hand-colored aquatint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of International Business Machines Corporation, 1966.48.77
Panoramic View of New York
Artist
Date1844
hand-colored aquatint on paper
Not on view
John James Audubon, Robert Havell, Jr., Frigate Pelican, from the book Birds of America, 1835, hand-colored engraving and aquatint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund, 1980.91
Frigate Pelican, from the book Birds of America
Artist
Date1835
hand-colored engraving and aquatint on paper
Not on view