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Henry Jones Thaddeus
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Le retour du braconnier ("The Wounded Poacher"), painting by Henry Jones Thaddeus, 1881; now in National Gallery of Ireland
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Henry Thaddeus Jones
1859 Cork, Ireland
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| Died | 1929 Ryde, Isle of Wight
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| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | Cork School of Art; London; Académie Julian, Paris |
| Known for | Painter |
| Movement | Orientalist; realist; Impressionist |
Henry Jones Thaddeus (1859 – 1929) was a realist and portrait painter born and trained in County Cork, Ireland.
Life and career
Born Henry Thaddeus Jones in 1859, he entered the Cork School of Art when he was ten years old. There he studied under the genre painter James Brenan. Thaddeus won the Taylor Prize in 1878 enabling him to go to London, and then again in 1879 enabling him to continue his studies in Paris at the Académie Julian. His first major painting (illustration, right) was hung "on the line" (at eye-level) at the Paris Salon of 1881.
He received commissions to paint portraits, among them two papal portrait commissions (for Pope Pius X), and became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He received several other portrait commissions.
In his latter years he settled in the Isle of Wight, and died there at Ryde, on 1 May 1929.
His autobiography was titled Recollections of a Court Painter, which he wrote during his retirement in California.
See also
- List of Orientalist artists
- Orientalism
