Irregularly, but not even that infrequently, paintings by Charles Shannon come on the market. At the JS Fine Art auction house in Banbury, Oxfordshire, a 'Portrait of a Seated Lady', signed and dated 1905, will go under the hammer tomorrow.
A week ago, the lady in the picture was not identified by the auction house, but by now it has been described as the portrait of Agnes Mary Goldman.
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| Charles Shannon, Portrait of Agnes Mary Goldman, 1905 [photos: JS Fine Art] |
Agnes Mary Peel (1869-1959) was married to Charles Sydney Goldman (1858-1958) in 1899. The portrait was one of only two portraits Shannon completed in 1905, and this one was listed as 'The Hon. Mrs Goldman'. The provenance of the painting is Yaveland Manor, Isle of Wight, where Charles Goldman lived after a career as war journalist and ostrich farmer in South Africa and as a farmer in British Columbia.
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| Agnes Mary Goldman, her son Penryn, and her husband Charles Sydney Goldman |
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| Charles Shannon, Portrait of Agnes Mary Goldman, 1905 (detail) [photo" JS Fine Art] |
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| Charles Shannon, Portrait of Agnes Mary Goldman, 1905 (detail) [photo" JS Fine Art] |
Shannon portrayed the sitter in profile with an elegantly draped pink curtain in the background and a convex mirror that he often showed in his paintings. The scene in the mirror is not entirely clear, but appears to be an ode to motherhood with a mother holding a young child.PS, 30 April 2022:
Hammer price: £7,000.
