Henry Jones Thaddeus

Henry Jones Thaddeus (1859 – 1929) was a realist and portrait painter born and trained in County Cork, Ireland.[1]

Henry Jones Thaddeus
Le retour du braconnier ("The Wounded Poacher"), painting by Henry Jones Thaddeus, 1881; now in National Gallery of Ireland
Born
Henry Thaddeus Jones

1859
Cork, Ireland
Died1929
Ryde, Isle of Wight
NationalityIrish
EducationCork School of Art; London; Académie Julian, Paris
Known forPainter
MovementOrientalist; realist; Impressionist

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.

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See also

Further reading
  • Brendan Rooney, 2003. Henry Jones Thaddeus (Peter Murray) ISBN 1-85182-692-0

References
  1. "Henry Thaddeus - a portrait artist to watch". Irish Times. 24 July 1999.
  2. Rooney, Brendan (2003). The Life and Work of Harry Jones Thaddeus, 1859-1929. Four Courts Press. ISBN 9781851826926.
  3. Thaddeus, Henry Jones (1912). Recollections of a court painter. John Lane.
  4. "Henry Jones Thaddeus". The Oriel Gallery. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  5. Julian Campbell (1986). "Jour de Marche, Finistere (Work by H. Jones Thaddeus)" (PDF). Irish Arts Review. III (3): 16–18.
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