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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

66 x 37??? in. (167.6 x 95.8 cm.)

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Provenance:

SIR JAMES JEBUSA SHANNON, R.A., R.B.A. (BRITISH, 1862-1923) Meredith 'Bunny' Howland Pyne with his Dog, Hector signed and dated 'J.J. SHANNON/1906' (lower left) oil on canvas 66 x 377?8 in. (167.6 x 95.8 cm.) Percy Rivington Pyne II (1857-1929) and Maud Howland Pyne (1866-1952), New York, the parents of the sitter, commissioned from the artist. By descent to the present owner. B. D. Gallati, Portraits of Artistry and Artifice: The Career of Sir James Jebusa Shannon, 1862-1923, Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1992, vol. 1, p. 275, illustrated, p. 498, no. 135, as Meredith, Son of Percy Pyne. Portrait painters [scrapbook]: Laszlo, Shannon, 1932, in New York Public Library holdings, as Portrait of a Boy. 'Fine Arts,' Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, 15 March 1907, p. 4. 'Exhibitions Now On,' American Art News, New York, 16 March 1907, n.p., as Meredith, Son of Percy R. Pyne. 'Notes and Comment About Men and Women Prominent in Art,' Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 March 1907, p. 54, as Meredith, Son of Percy R. Pyne. New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Recent Portraits by Mr. J. J. Shannon, A.R.A., March 1907, no. 11, as Meredith - Son of Mr. Percy R. Pyne.