Mary Rankin Swan | |
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Born | Mary Ann Rankin 1865 Ireland |
Died | 1944(1944-00-00) (aged 78–79) |
Nationality | Irish |
Known for | Portraits of Children |
Notable work | Sunbeams, The music Lesson |
Mary Rankin Swan (1865-1944), also Mrs John Macallan Swan, was an Irish portrait artist.
Life
Born Mary Anne Rankin in Coleraine, Ireland, in 1865. Her father was Hamilton Rankin of Camdonagh, County Donegal, he was an inspector of waterworks. She married the artist John Macallan Swan in Cork in 1884. She was an artist who specialised in depictions of children and occasionally sculptures.
Together, they had two children, John Barye Rankin, an engineer who served as a Naval Volunteer Reserve in the First World War, and Mary Alice, who went on to become a sculptor and medalist.
The family lived in London. She died in 1944.
References
- Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day. Library of Alexandria. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-1-4655-2483-6.
- ^ "Mrs J. M. Swan | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- Armstrong, Walter (1912). "Swan, John Macallan" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. pp. 455–456.
- "Biographical information". V&A's collections.
- "Mapping the practice and profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951-John Macallan Swan". University of Glasgow History of Art.
- "Gazette" (PDF).
- "Lives of the first world war".
- ^ "Mapping the practice and profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951- Mary Alice Swan"". University of Glasgow History of Art.
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