© Leonie Sturge-Moore and Charmian O'Neil
Miriam
Artist: Charles Hazlewood Shannon (1863 - 1937)
Location: The Collection: Art and Archaeology in Lincolnshire
Date: 1920
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 109 x 81 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £4,000 (Total: £8,000)
Vendor: Simon Reynolds
Review number: 3603 (1991)
Provenance:
Artist's collection; Steve Hallett, USA1974-89; Simon Reynolds.
Description:
At Lambeth School of Art Shannon met his life-long friend/companion, Charles Ricketts. Successful career as a portrait painter and here is a likeness of one of his favourite models and possibly his mistress. He fell from a ladder while hanging a painting on the stairs and this is the picture that is traditionally supposed to have caused the fall.
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