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
Died	1929 Ryde, Isle of Wight
Nationality	Irish
Education	Cork School of Art; London; Académie Julian, Paris
Known for	Painter
Movement	Orientalist; 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.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of Orientalist artists
• Orientalism

Further reading

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

References

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