Henry Jones Thaddeus
Henry Jones Thaddeus | |
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Born | Henry Thaddeus Jones 1859 Cork, Ireland |
Died | 1929 Ryde, Isle of Wight |
Nationality | Irish |
Education | Cork School of Art; London; Académie Julian, Paris |
Known for | Painter |
Movement | Orientalist; realist; Impressionist |
Henry Jones Thaddeus (1859 – 1929) was a realist and portrait painter born and trained in County Cork, Ireland.[1]
Life and career[]
Born Henry Thaddeus Jones in 1859,[2] he entered the Cork School of Art when he was ten years old.[3] There he studied under the genre painter James Brenan. Thaddeus won the Taylor Prize in 1878 enabling him to go to London,[4] and then again in 1879 enabling him to continue his studies in Paris at the Académie Julian. His first major painting (illustration, right) was hung "on the line" (at eye-level) at the Paris Salon of 1881.[5]
He received commissions to paint portraits, among them two papal portrait commissions (for Pope Pius X), and became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He received several other portrait commissions.
In his latter years he settled in the Isle of Wight, and died there at Ryde, on 1 May 1929.
His autobiography was titled Recollections of a Court Painter, which he wrote during his retirement in California.
Renewed interest[]
Art historian Julian Campbell became interested in Jones, and other mid-to-late-century Irish artists, and assembled the Irish Impressionists exhibition in 1984 at the National Gallery of Ireland. However, many of the artists exhibited, like Thaddeus, were not strictly Impressionists.[citation needed]
See also[]
Further reading[]
- Brendan Rooney, 2003. Henry Jones Thaddeus (Peter Murray) ISBN 1-85182-692-0
References[]
- ^ "Henry Thaddeus - a portrait artist to watch". Irish Times. 24 July 1999.
- ^ Rooney, Brendan (2003). The Life and Work of Harry Jones Thaddeus, 1859-1929. Four Courts Press. ISBN 9781851826926.
- ^ Thaddeus, Henry Jones (1912). Recollections of a court painter. John Lane.
- ^ "Henry Jones Thaddeus". The Oriel Gallery. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ Julian Campbell (1986). "Jour de Marche, Finistere (Work by H. Jones Thaddeus)" (PDF). Irish Arts Review. III (3): 16–18.[permanent dead link]
- 1859 births
- 1929 deaths
- 19th-century Irish painters
- 20th-century Irish painters
- Irish male painters
- Irish genre painters
- Realist painters
- Irish portrait painters
- Orientalist painters
- People from County Cork
- Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
- 19th-century male artists
- 20th-century male artists