# John Shackleton > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Shackleton > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Shackleton.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shackleton > Source revision: 1322970299 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British painter (died 1767)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{More citations needed|date=October 2007}} [[File:George II by Shakelton.JPG|thumb|200px|George II by John Shackleton, 1758 ([Foundling Hospital](/source/Foundling_Hospital)) – this image was given by the artist in May 1758, in return for which he was elected a governor and guardian of the hospital]] '''John Shackleton''' (died 16 March 1767) was a British painter and [draughtsman](/source/drawing) who produced [history painting](/source/history_painting)s and portraits. His parents and origins are unknown. ==Output== thumb|left|180px|Henry Pelham, by Shackleton Shackleton painted several surviving portraits, for example of [Henry Pelham](/source/Henry_Pelham) (National Portrait Gallery), [William Windham](/source/William_Windham) (1717–1761; now at [Felbrigg Hall](/source/Felbrigg_Hall), Norfolk), and of [John Bristowe](/source/John_Bristowe), steward to the [first duke of Newcastle](/source/Thomas_Pelham-Holles%2C_1st_Duke_of_Newcastle-upon-Tyne) (now in the [Reitlinger Museum of Fine Art](/source/Reitlinger_Museum_of_Fine_Art), [Maidenhead](/source/Maidenhead)). From 1749 he was [Principal Painter in Ordinary](/source/Principal_Painter_in_Ordinary) to [George II](/source/George_II_of_Great_Britain) and [George III](/source/George_III).{{cite book |last1=Redgrave |first1=S. |last2=Redgrave |first2=F.M. |title=A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists: with Notices of Their Lives and Work |publisher=G. Bell and sons |year=1878 |url=https://archive.org/details/adictionaryarti00redggoog |access-date=1 May 2019 |page=[https://archive.org/details/adictionaryarti00redggoog/page/n408 388]}}{{cite book |last=Ormond |first=R. |title=The Face of Monarchy: British Royalty Portrayed |publisher=Phaidon |year=1977 |url=https://archive.org/details/faceofmonarchybr0000ormo |url-access=registration |access-date=1 May 2019 |page=[https://archive.org/details/faceofmonarchybr0000ormo/page/30 30]|isbn=9780714817620 }} He continued to be paid for portraits of the king and queen up even during 1765–6, when their ''official'' portraits were being done by [Allan Ramsay](/source/Allan_Ramsay_(artist)). Several examples of his and his studio's output of royal portraits survive – one of George II dated 1755 is in the [Scottish National Portrait Gallery](/source/Scottish_National_Portrait_Gallery), Edinburgh; another of George II in Room 2 of the [British Museum](/source/British_Museum), London (commissioned by the museum in 1759 – the Museum also holds engravings after his paintings), along with two more of George II in the Royal Collection and others in [Fishmongers' Hall](/source/Fishmongers'_Hall), London, and [Maidenhead](/source/Maidenhead) Museum. ==Life== He was a member of the 1755 committee that drew up the first proposal for siting a [royal academy](/source/Royal_Academy) in London. On 8 March 1758 he was elected to be a member of the [Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce](/source/Society_for_the_Encouragement_of_Arts%2C_Manufactures%2C_and_Commerce), then in its infancy. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists from 1763 to 1766. Among the legatees of his will, dated 8 March 1767, were his ‘dear friend Mrs Sarah Rice’, ‘two marble heads said to be done by [Bernini](/source/Bernini) to my intimate friend Mr Robt [D?]ossie of [Wardour Street](/source/Wardour_Street), Soho’, and ‘a half-length picture of a Lady by [Vandyke](/source/Anthony_van_Dyck) and a small landscape by [Gaspar Poussin](/source/Gaspar_Poussin) to John Bristow Esqr Keeper of [His Majesties Lions](/source/menagerie) in the [Tower](/source/Tower_of_London)’. ==Marriage and issue== On 25 October 1742 (as a parishioner of [St George's, Hanover Square](/source/St_George's%2C_Hanover_Square), London) he married Mary Ann Regnier. ==Sources == {{reflist}} * J. R. Fawcett-Thompson, ‘The elusive Mr. Shackleton: light on the principal painter in ordinary to King George II and George III’, The Connoisseur, 165 (1967), 232–9 * B. Stewart and M. Cutten, The dictionary of portrait painters in Britain up to 1920 (1997), 417 · Waterhouse, 18c painters, 341 * J. Kerslake, National Portrait Gallery: early Georgian portraits, 1 (1977), 91, 93, 101, 204, 208–9 * O. Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and early Georgian pictures in the collection of her majesty the queen, 2 vols. (1963), vol. 1, 26, 150; vol. 2, nos. 567–8 * O. Millar, The later Georgian pictures in the collection of her majesty the queen, 1 (1969), xiii n.15, xli * [Horace Walpole](/source/Horace_Walpole), Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists, ed. [James Dallaway](/source/James_Dallaway), [rev. and enl. edn], 2 (1826), 711 * [Samuel Redgrave](/source/Samuel_Redgrave), ''Artists'' * [John Chaloner Smith](/source/John_Chaloner_Smith), ''British Mezzotinto Portraits'', 1 (1878), 317; 2 (1879), 677–8 * Engraved Brit. ports., 1.245; 2.298, 456; 3.437 * B. Nicholson, The treasures of the Foundling Hospital, with a catalogue raisonné based on a draft catalogue by John Kerslake (1972), 32, 34, 50, 78, no. 74 * will, PRO, PROB 11/928, fols. 48r–49r ==External links== * {{commons category-inline}} * {{cite ODNB|id=25186|title=Shackleton, John}}. {{DNBfirst|wstitle=Shackleton, John}} * [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp07543&role=art Portraits by Shackleton at the] [National Portrait Gallery, London](/source/National_Portrait_Gallery%2C_London) * {{Art UK bio}} {{s-start}} {{s-court}} {{s-bef|before=[William Kent](/source/William_Kent)}} {{s-ttl|title=[Principal Painter in Ordinary](/source/Principal_Painter_in_Ordinary) to the King| years=7 March 1749–1767}} {{s-aft|after=[Allan Ramsay](/source/Allan_Ramsay_(artist))}} {{end}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shackelton, John}} Category:18th-century English painters Category:English male painters Category:Principal Painters in Ordinary Category:British draughtsmen Category:1767 deaths Category:Year of birth unknown Category:British history painters Category:18th-century English male artists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [John Shackleton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shackleton) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shackleton?action=history)). 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