Description WILLIAM SHACKLETON (BRITISH 1872-1933) Study for the Island of dreams signed and titled (on the reverse) oil on canvas 35.5 x 46 cm William Shackleton, portrait and landscape painter, born in Bradford. In 1893 he won a scholarship to study at the National Art Training School (later renamed The Royal College of Art), in 1896 he gained a British Institute Scholarship, enabling him to study in Paris and in Italy. On returning to London he took a studio with Philip Connard, the decorative and portrait painter, in Chelsea. After 1914 he moved to Malham, Yorkshire, which became the subject of his later landscapes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Leicester Galleries, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Grosvenor Gallery, Goupil Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, amongst others. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1910 and again in 1922. His work was influenced by the work of Turner and integrated Turner’s colour ideas into his own, often impressionist and a self-confessed symbolist work.
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