Mary Rankin Swan Explained

Mary Rankin Swan
Birth Name:	Mary Ann Rankin
Birth Date:	1865
Birth Place:	Ireland
Nationality:	Irish
Known For:	Portraits of Children
Notable Works:	Sunbeams, The music Lesson

Mary Rankin Swan (1865-1944), also Mrs John Macallan Swan, was an Irish portrait artist.^[1]

Life

Born Mary Anne Rankin in Coleraine, Ireland, in 1865.^[2] Her father was Hamilton Rankin of Camdonagh, County Donegal, he was an inspector of waterworks. She married the artist John Macallan Swan in Cork in 1884.^[3] She was an artist who specialised in depictions of children and occasionally sculptures.^{[4] [5]}

Together, they had two children, John Barye Rankin, an engineer who served as a Naval Volunteer Reserve ^{[6] [7]} in the First World War, and Mary Alice, who went on to become a sculptor and medalist.^[8]

The family lived in London.^[8] She died in 1944.

Notes and References

1. Book: Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day. Library of Alexandria. 978-1-4655-2483-6. 54–.
2. Web site: Mrs J. M. Swan Artist Royal Academy of Arts . 2022-11-25 . www.royalacademy.org.uk.
3. Swan, John Macallan . 3 . Armstrong . Walter . Walter Armstrong (art historian). 455-456 . 1.
4. Web site: Biographical information . V&A's collections.
5. Web site: Mapping the practice and profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951-John Macallan Swan. University of Glasgow History of Art.
6. Web site: Gazette.
7. Web site: Lives of the first world war.
8. Web site: Mapping the practice and profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951- Mary Alice Swan". University of Glasgow History of Art.