The Lady with the Green Fan (Portrait of Mrs Hacon)

Charles Haslewood Shannon

Oil on canvas

152 x 137.2 cm

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Reg. 265

Presented by Charles Haslewood Shannon (the Artist), 1904.

This is a portrait of Amaryllis Roubichaud, formerly 'Ryllis Hacon, formerly Muriel Broadbent, formerly Edith Broadbent. She was married to Llewellyn Hacon and she was a friend of both Charles Conder and Toulouse Lautrec. She is buried in Dornoch, Scotland and her grave is inscribed 'Ryllis Roubichaud' RIP. She had at least two sons. W. B.Yeats refers to this work in his poem, 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited'.

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