Kitty Shannon
Katherine Marjorie "Kitty" Shannon (3 February 1887 – 24 November 1974), was an English artist and illustrator. 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.
Also recorded as Katherine Marjorie Shannon
Kitty Shannon
James Jebusa Shannon · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy · CC0
- Born
- 1887 · England.
- Died
- 1974 · England.
- Occupation
- illustrator · artist
- Fields
- art · illustration
- Languages
- English
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Katherine Marjorie "Kitty" Shannon (3 February 1887 – 24 November 1974), was an English artist and illustrator. 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.
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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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1887
Kitty Shannon was born on 3 February 1887.
1974
Kitty Shannon died on 24 November 1974.
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