- John Shackleton
John Shackleton (? - 14 or 16 March 1767, London) was a British painter and
draughtsman who producedhistory painting s and portraits. His parents and origins are unknown.Output
Shackleton painted several surviving portraits, for example of
Henry Pelham (National Portrait Gallery),William Windham (1717–1761; now atFelbrigg Hall , Norfolk), and ofJohn Bristowe , steward to the first duke of Newcastle (now in theReitlinger Museum of Fine Art ,Maidenhead ).From 1749 he was principal "painter-in-ordinary" to George II and George III. He continued to be paid for portraits of the king and queen up even during 1765–6, when their "official" portraits were being done by Allan Ramsay. Several examples of his and his studio's output of royal portraits survive - one of George II dated 1755 is in the
Scottish National Portrait Gallery , Edinburgh; another of George II in Room 2 of theBritish Museum , London (commissioned by the museum in 1759 - the Museum also holds engravings after his paintings), along with two more of George II in the Royal Collection and others inFishmongers' Hall , London, andMaidenhead Museum.Life
He was a member of the 1755 committee that drew up the first proposal for siting a royal academy in London. On 8 March 1758 he was elected to be a member of the
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce , then in its infancy. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists from 1763 to 1766.Among the legatees of his will, dated 8 March 1767, were his ‘dear friend Mrs Sarah Rice’, ‘two marble heads said to be done by
Bernini to my intimate friend Mr Robt [D?] ossie ofWardour Street , Soho’, and ‘a half-length picture of a Lady by Vandyke and a small landscape byGaspar Poussin to John Bristow Esqr Keeper of His Majesties Lions in the Tower’.Marriage and issue
On 25 October 1742 (as a parishioner of
St George's, Hanover Square , London) he married Mary Ann Regnier.External links
* [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101025186/ DNB entry]
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp07543&role=art Portraits by Shackleton at the]National Portrait Gallery, London ources
*J. R. Fawcett-Thompson, ‘The elusive Mr. Shackleton: light on the principal painter in ordinary to King George II and George III’, The Connoisseur, 165 (1967), 232–9
*B. Stewart and M. Cutten, The dictionary of portrait painters in Britain up to 1920 (1997), 417 · Waterhouse, 18c painters, 341
*J. Kerslake, National Portrait Gallery: early Georgian portraits, 1 (1977), 91, 93, 101, 204, 208–9
*O. Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and early Georgian pictures in the collection of her majesty the queen, 2 vols. (1963), vol. 1, 26, 150; vol. 2, nos. 567–8
*O. Millar, The later Georgian pictures in the collection of her majesty the queen, 1 (1969), xiii n.15, xli
*H. Walpole, Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists, ed. J. Dallaway, [rev. and enl. edn] , 2 (1826), 711
*Redgrave, Artists
*J. C. Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, 1 (1878), 317; 2 (1879), 677–8
*Engraved Brit. ports., 1.245; 2.298, 456; 3.437
*B. Nicholson, The treasures of the Foundling Hospital, with a catalogue raisonné based on a draft catalogue by John Kerslake (1972), 32, 34, 50, 78, no. 74
*will, PRO, PROB 11/928, fols. 48r–49r
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