Katherine Marjorie "Kitty" Shannon (3 February 1887[1] – 24 November 1974),[citation needed] was an English artist and illustrator.[2] Her father was the artist Sir James Jebusa Shannon, for whom she was a frequent sitter.[1] In 1912, she married Walter Keigwin and they had two children.[3]
Kitty Shannon | |
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| Born | 3 February 1887  |
| Died | 1974 (aged 86–87) |
| Occupation | Illustrator |
Works edit
Her work includes illustration for:
- The Devil on Two Sticks by Alain-René Lesage
- Nell Gwyn: The Story of Her Life by Lewis Melville
- Henry VIII and His Wives by Walter Jerrold (1926)
- Venus in Trousers, the fictionalised biography of George Sand (1938)
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References edit
- ^ a b Gallati, Barbara Dayer (23 September 2004). Shannon, Sir James Jebusa (1862–1923), portrait painter. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36039.
- ^ Austlit. "Kitty Shannon | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
- ^ Burke, Doreen Bolger (2012). American paintings in the metropolitan museum of art : a catalogue of works by artists born ... Vol. 3. Metropolitan Mus Of Art. pp. 416–419. ISBN 0-300-19288-6. OCLC 939398089.