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Charles
Hazlewood Shannon R.A., R.E., R.P. (1863 –
1937)
“The
Romantic Landscape” R14 1893
Lithograph.
Signed with the artist’s monogram in the stone plate
Image
size 8 7/8” x 8 ½” (226 x 216mm)
Overall
framed size 20 1/8” x 18 1/16” (511mm x
459mm)
In
a period oak frame
As
privately published by Charles Ricketts and Charles Hazlewood
Shannon in
“The
Dial” No. 3 (Aside from the signed edition of 30)
Illustrated
in “The Sketch” 23rd Jan 1895 page 617, “Print Making in Britain”
by
Richard Godfrey and Salaman “Print Collector’s
Handbook” 1918 page 200. IMAGE
Charles
Hazelwood Shannon was a figure and portrait painter, an illustrator and a
lithographer. He was born at Sleaford,
Lincolnshire on 26th April 1863 and studied wood engraving at
Lambeth School of Art in 1882. Whilst
there he met his lifelong friend Charles Ricketts, with whom he founded a
magazine The Dial (1889 –1897) and The Vale Press (1896 – 1904). He was elected Associate Member of the Royal
Academy in 1911 rising to full Member in 1920.
He also became a Member of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and
Engravers in 1891 and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1898. He exhibited at Agnew and Sons Gallery, Beaux
Arts Gallery, Barbizon House, Carfax and Co. Galleries, the Fine Art Society,
the Grosvenor Gallery, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Goupil Gallery, the International Society, Walker Art
Gallery Liverpool, the Leicester Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery, the New
English Art Club, the New Gallery, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the
Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of
Painter, Etchers and Engravers, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Royal
Institute, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Scottish
Academy. His first one-man show was held
in 1907 at the Leicester Galleries. In
1916 The Lady with the Amethyst was
purchased by the Chantry Bequest. He is
represented in several public collections including the British Museum and the
Leicestershire Art Gallery. He died on
18th March 1937 in London.