Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-james-jebusa-shannon-1932" aria-label="More by Sir James Jebusa Shannon" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir James Jebusa Shannon</a>
Phil May
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1923
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist, draughtsman
arts and entertainment
clothing and personal items
coat
hat
individuals: male
leisure and pastimes
man
May, Phil
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
recreational activities
riding
smoking
standing
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
7 April 2014 – 12 October 2014
2014-10-12
7 April 2014 – 12 October 2014
2014-10-12
2014-04-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-04-07
Forgotten Faces
Collection based display
Phil May
support: 1333 × 921 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1923
<p><b>N03825</b> PHIL MAY 1902</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘J.J. Shannon’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 52 1/2×36 1/4 (133·5×92).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist's widow 1923.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1902 (269); <i>Secession</i>, Berlin, 1903 (catalogue not traced); <i>Franco-British</i>, 1908 (154, repr. in souvenir between pp.142 and 143); <i>VI Exposition International De Arte</i>, Barcelona, 1911 (catalogue not traced); Royal Society of Portrait Painters, R.A., November–December 1921 (50, repr. pl.2); R.A., <i>Late Members</i>, winter 1928 (21).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> <i>Kunst für Alle</i>, XVIII, 1903, p.428.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Art Journal</i>, 1902, p.217; James Thorpe, <i>Phil May</i>, 1932, facing p.64.</p>
<p>For a biography of the sitter see under Phil May (1864–1903). The sitter was a close friend of the Shannon family, living near them in Holland Park Road at Roseley House and accompanying Shannon and his daughter Kitty on their rides in Richmond Park. The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> was painted a year before the sitter's death.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-05T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults artist, draughtsman arts and entertainment clothing and personal items coat hat individuals: male leisure and pastimes man May, Phil named individuals objects people portraits recreational activities riding smoking standing work and occupations