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Portrait of Charles Ricketts, painted at Kennington Road, Lambeth
Auction: 07/15/2021
Lot: 139
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Charles Haslewood Shannon AUCTION RECORDS
1865 London, England - 1937. Known for: Realist and ethereal figure painting, lithographs.
Charles Hazelwood Shannon was born in London on April 26, 1865 and was trained as a wood-engraver at the City and Guilds Technical Art School in Lambeth, London. There he met the painter and designer... Read full biography
Charles Hazelwood Shannon was born in London on April 26, 1865 and was trained as a wood-engraver at the City and Guilds Technical Art School in Lambeth, London. There he met the painter and designer Charles Ricketts. In 1888 they moved into Whistler's house, The Vale, in Chelsea. Shannon was... Read full biography
Charles Hazelwood Shannon was born in London on April 26, 1865 and was trained as a wood-engraver at the City and Guilds Technical Art School in Lambeth, London. There he met the painter and designer Charles Ricketts. In 1888 they moved into Whistler's house, The Vale, in Chelsea. Shannon was particularly concerned with experimenting with lithographic techniques and woodcut illustrations. Influenced by A. H. Mackmurdo and William Morris, he and Ricketts set up a small printing press, producing... Read full biography
Charles Hazelwood Shannon was born in London on April 26, 1865 and was trained as a wood-engraver at the City and Guilds Technical Art School in Lambeth, London. There he met the painter and designer Charles Ricketts. In 1888 they moved into Whistler's house, The Vale, in Chelsea. Shannon was particularly concerned with experimenting with lithographic techniques and woodcut illustrations. Influenced by A. H. Mackmurdo and William Morris, he and Ricketts set up a small printing press, producing art journals and books, including their own magazine The Dial and Oscar Wilde's A House of Pomegranates (1891) and The Sphinx (1894): Wilde called Shannon the 'Orchid' because of his effete and mannered disposition. He also was a collector and bought... Read full biography
Charles Hazelwood Shannon was born in London on April 26, 1865 and was trained as a wood-engraver at the City and Guilds Technical Art School in Lambeth, London. There he met the painter and designer Charles Ricketts. In 1888 they moved into Whistler's house, The Vale, in Chelsea. Shannon was particularly concerned with experimenting with lithographic techniques and woodcut illustrations. Influenced by A. H. Mackmurdo and William Morris, he and Ricketts set up a small printing press, producing art journals and books, including their own magazine The Dial and Oscar Wilde's A House of Pomegranates (1891) and The Sphinx (1894): Wilde called Shannon the 'Orchid' because of his effete and mannered disposition. He also was a collector and bought a lithograph by JW from the Fine Art Society in 1895. Both Ricketts and Shannon were members of the In... Read full biography
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