Mary Rankin Swan (1865-1944), also Mrs John Macallan Swan, was an Irish portrait artist.[1]
Mary Rankin Swan | |
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| Born | Mary Ann Rankin 1865 Ireland |
| Died | 1944 (aged 78–79) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Known for | Portraits of Children |
| Notable work | Sunbeams, The music Lesson |
Life
editBorn Mary Anne Rankin in Coleraine, Ireland, in 1865.[2] Her father was Hamilton Rankin of Camdonagh, County Donegal, he was an inspector of waterworks.[2] She married the artist John Macallan Swan in Cork in 1884.[3] She was an artist who specialised in depictions of children and occasionally sculptures.[4][5]
Together, they had two children, John Barye Rankin, an engineer who served as a Naval Volunteer Reserve [6][7] in the First World War, and Mary Alice, who went on to become a sculptor and medalist.[8]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "Mrs J. M. Swan | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ Armstrong, Walter (1912). . 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".
- ^ a b "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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