Kitty Shannon Explained

Katherine Marjorie "Kitty" Shannon (3 February 1887^[1] – 24 November 1974), was an English artist and illustrator.^[2] Her father was the artist Sir James Jebusa Shannon, for whom she was a frequent sitter. In 1912, she married Walter Keigwin and they had two children.^[3]

Works

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)

External links

• Illustrations to The Devil on Two Sticks
• Online edition of The Devil on Two Sticks
• Online edition of Nell Gwyn: The Story of Her Life

Notes and References

1. Book: Gallati, Barbara Dayer. Shannon, Sir James Jebusa (1862–1923), portrait painter. 2004-09-23. Oxford University Press. en. 10.1093/ref:odnb/36039.
2. Web site: Austlit. Kitty Shannon AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. 2020-11-04. www.austlit.edu.au. en.
3. Book: Burke, Doreen Bolger. American paintings in the metropolitan museum of art : a catalogue of works by artists born .... 2012. Metropolitan Mus Of Art. 0-300-19288-6. 3. 416-419. 939398089.