Henry Jones Thaddeus RHA (1859-1929)

The Irish portrait artist, plein-air* landscape/subject painter and Orientalist* Henry Thaddeus Jones (who later altered his name to Henry Jones Thaddeus), was born in Cork city and entered the Cork School of Art at the age of 11 under James Brenan where he trained in freehand drawing and copying from classical* sculpture. At 20, he won the prestigious Royal Dublin Society (RDS) Taylor Prize, which enabled him to advance his painting career with further study at Heatherly's Academy in London, from where he made his way to Paris and enrolled at the Academie Julian*. Here he trained under the French masters Gustave Boulanger and Charles Lefebvre. While still a student, Thaddeus exh...