Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon: 350. A Drawing of Ricketts and Shannon

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

350. A Drawing of Ricketts and Shannon

The two paintings of Shannon in the National Portrait Gallery - Shannon's self-portrait and his portrait of Ricketts - seem to inspire contemporary artists. I found a recent double portrait on a site called 'Deviant Art'. I couldn't contact the visual artist who posted this drawing, so I hope she doesn't mind my reproducing it here.

Pumpkin-Pasty (Rosie), portrait of Shannon and Ricketts (2017?)

The comments are about his style: 'Beautiful, delicate way of painting - transparent soft of colour. Gentle painting'. The drawing - by an art student? - is published on the site by 'Pumpkin-Pasty', or 'Rosie', who is, according to her tags, interested in traditional painting, drawings, portraits & figures.

Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), artist, book designer, collector, art critic, set and costume designer & Charles Shannon (1863-1937), lithographer, painter and art collector : a weekly blog written by Paul van Capelleveen

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With contributions by Paul Delaney (no. 11, no. 100, no. 300), Paul Delaney and Armand Robichaud (no. 500), Barbara Pezzini (no. 39, no. 40), Paul Durham (no. 136), Philip R. Bishop (no. 150), Vincent Barlow (no. 189), Rebecca Mitchell (no. 400), Geoff Dibb (no. 433), John Aplin (no. 450, 476, 481, 482), Jan Piggott (no. 455, no. 492), Anna Gruetzner Robins (no. 564), and Helen Ritchie (no. 600).

Thanks are due to Marja Smolenaars.