Emily Shanks

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Emily Shanks, also known as Emiliya Yakovlevna Shanks or Эмилия Яковлевна Шанкс (born Moscow 1 August 1857 - died London 13 January 1936), was an Anglo-Russian artist.

Her father, James Stewart Shanks, was a Moscow businessman, and her siblings include Mary Shanks, also an artist, and Louise Maude, translator of Tolstoy's fiction. She was a British citizen, but spent much of her life in Russia.

She went to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and was the first woman to have her work shown by the Russian Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions ^[1], a group who were reacting against formal conventions and who wanted to bring accessible art to a wider public than before.

Paintings by Shanks were included in the London Royal Academy's Summer Exhibitions of 1916 and 1918 ^[2], while she was living near Holland Park. Her death was registered in Kensington early in 1936.

[edit] Paintings

• Employing a Governess Tyumen Museum, Russia
• The Girl, privately owned
• The Lesson (1887), privately owned
• The Ink Blot (c1893)
• Scene in a Russian Hospital: The Ear Inspection, Cheltenham Art Gallery, England
• Work in the Syzransky Museum, Samara
• Double Portrait of Aylmer Maude and Stella Meldrum^[3], privately owned
• A Bit of Moscow (exhibited RA 1916)
• Peaceful Moscow (exhibited RA 1918)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Natalia Paromova's article (12 May 2004) on website of Tyumen Museum
2. ^ Angela Jarman, Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-1970 Vol III (1985)
3. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's entry for Maude

• Russian Art Union website
• Shanks' Russian name Yakovlevna or Jakovlevna is a patronymic from her father's name, James.

[edit] External links

• Society of Traveling Exhibitions
• The Immortal Itinerants
• Peredvizhniki (Wanderers)