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Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914
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<p>Shannon painted this for an 'Exhibition of Fair Women', an annual show organised in London by the International Society of Painters. His sitter 'Mrs Pat' was well known as an actress. She was a friend of Shannon, and was then also working with his companion Charles Ricketts, who designed a production of 'Elektra' for her.Shannon revived the style of the Venetian high renaissance painters such as Titian, here with the rich colouring of the glazes, the movement of the pose, and the costume with the low fronted blouse.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
14 May 2004 – 11 July 2004
2004-07-11
1 May 2004 – 31 July 2004
2004-07-31
2004-05-01
New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, UK)
http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk/
2004-05-14
Hidden Histories
Loan-out
Mrs Patrick Campbell
support: 1226 × 1086 mm
frame: 1543 × 1410 × 90 mm
Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914
<p>Shannon painted this for an 'Exhibition of Fair Women', an annual show organised in London by the International Society of Painters. His sitter 'Mrs Pat' was well known as an actress. She was a friend of Shannon, and was then also working with his companion Charles Ricketts, who designed a production of 'Elektra' for her.</p><p>Shannon revived the style of the Venetian high <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/renaissance" title="Glossary definition for 'Renaissance'"><span>renaissance</span></a> painters such as Titian, here with the rich colouring of the glazes, the movement of the pose, and the costume with the low fronted blouse.</p>
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<p><b>N02995</b> MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL 1907</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Charles Shannon 1907.’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 48 1/4×42 3/4 (123×109).
<br/>Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Francis Howard from the artist.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Fair Women</i>, International Society, February–March 1908 (287), as ‘Mrs Patrick Campbell in blue Dress’; <i>Anglo-American</i>, Shepherd's Bush, 1914 (catalogue untraced); International Society, autumn 1914 (among works purchased for presentation to the Tate).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> E. B. G[eorge], <i>Charles Shannon</i>, 1924, pp.18, 19, 22, repr. pl.15.</p>
<p>Beatrice Stella Campbell (1865–1940), better known as Mrs Patrick Campbell, the actress, was born in Kensington, London, the youngest daughter of John Tanner and Maria Luigia Giovanna Romanini. At the age of nineteen she eloped to marry Patrick Campbell, and made her first professional stage appearance at the Alexander Theatre, Liverpool, in October 1888. She made her name as Paula Tanqueray in Pinero's <i>The Second Mrs Tanqueray</i> at the St James's Theatre, May 1893, and established herself in romantic passionate roles. Her last great success in a new part came in April 1914, when she acted Eliza Doolittle, the heroine of Bernard Shaw's <i>Pygmalion</i>. She died at Pau in 1940.</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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2004-07-16T00:00:00
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