Henry Jones Thaddeus (1859 – 1929) was a realist and

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painter born and trained in

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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

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, and then again in 1879 enabling him to continue his studies in

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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

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, and died there at

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, on 1 May 1929. His autobiography was titled ''Recollections of a Court Painter'', which he wrote during his retirement in

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Renewed interest

Art historian Julian Campbell became interested in Jones, and other mid-to-late-century Irish artists, and assembled the ''Irish Impressionists'' exhibition in 1984 at the

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. However, many of the artists exhibited, like Thaddeus, were not strictly Impressionists.

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Life and career

Renewed interest

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