Martin Archer Shee
Sir Martin Archer Shee (born December 23, 1769 in Dublin , † August 13, 1850 in Brighton , Sussex) was a portrait painter from Ireland who was President of the Royal Academy of Arts from 1830 to 1850 .
Life
Born into a Catholic Irish family, Shee received his artistic training from the Royal Dublin Society . In 1789 he married Mary Power from Youghal . Shee went to London , where he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts on the recommendation of Joshua Reynolds . He devoted himself to portrait painting, but also painted genre pictures and historical paintings. Shee was made a member of the Royal Academy in 1798. From 1805 he also published poems. Although he worked as a portraitist of the highest circles, his painting was partly overshadowed by his colleague Thomas Lawrence , whose successor as President of the Royal Academy of Arts he succeeded in 1830. From 1842 to 1849 he was also the first president of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. In 1845 he fell ill and since then has lived mostly in Brighton. JMW Turner served as his deputy at the Royal Academy . Shee died in Brighton on August 13, 1850 .
Own works
- Elements of art, a poem; in six cantos , 1809. (engl.)
- Rhymes on art; Or, The Remonstrance of a Painter: in Two Parts , 1809. (Engl.)
- The Commemoration of Reynolds: In Two Parts , 1814. (Eng.)
- Oldcourt : Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , London: H. Colburn, 1829. (Engl.)
- Alasco: A Tragedy, in Five Acts , Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1824
literature
- Martin Archer Shee, The Life of Sir Martin Archer Shee , Volume 1 , Volume 2 , London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. (Eng.)
- Hugh Chisholm (Ed.) (1911). "Shee, Sir Martin Archer" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.) . Cambridge University Press . (engl.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Anon .: The Spring Exhibition, 1933 . In: RBSA (Ed.): Catalog of the Spring Exhibition . 1933.
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Presidents of the Royal Academy of Arts ( PRA ) (with term of office)
Joshua Reynolds (1768-1792) | Benjamin West (1792-1805) | James Wyatt (1805-1806) | Benjamin West (1806-1820) | Thomas Lawrence (1820-1830) | Martin Archer Shee (1830-1850) | Charles Lock Eastlake the Elder (1850–1865) | Francis Grant (1866-1878) | Frederic Leighton (1878-1896) | John Everett Millais (–Aug 1896) | Edward Poynter (1896-1918) | Aston Webb (1919-1924) | Frank Dicksee (1924–1928) | William Llewellyn (1928-1938) | Edwin Lutyens (1938-1944) | Alfred Munnings (1944–1949) | Gerald Festus Kelly (1949–1954) | Albert Richardson (1954-1956) | Charles Wheeler (1956-1966) | Walter Thomas Monnington (1966–1976) | Hugh Casson (1976-1984) | Roger de Gray (1984-1993) | Philip Dowson (1993-1999) | Phillip King (1999-2004) | Nicholas Grimshaw (2004-2011) | Christopher Le Brun (since 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shee, Martin Archer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1850 |
| Place of death | Brighton |