bothcamp and trench,he should—well,it opens out a finecareer foi him. As a painterMr. Shannon ispractically self-taught. The mostdevoted supporterof the South Ken-sington schools could hardly maintain that hisart reflects aught of their teaching. It is more tothe point to wonder that he should be… … gone the round of Paris, Antwerp and Munich. Asit was he quickly threw off the Poynter and Sparkstradition and studied in the best of all schools—that in which the masters are a mans own eyesand brains. The models he placed before himself were Velasquez,Bastien Lepageand Whistler, andto the…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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