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SHEE, SIR MARTIN ARCHER (1770-1850)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 817 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SHEE, SIR MARTIN ARCHER (1770-1850) , English portrait-painter and president of the Royal Academy, was born in Dublin on the 23rd of Decembei 1770. He was sprung from an old Irish family, and his father, a merchant, regarded the profession of a painter as no fit occupation for a descendant of the Shees. Young Shee became, nevertheless, a student of art in the Dublin Society, and came early to London, where he was, in1788, introduced by
Burke
  to Reynolds, by whose advice he studied in the schools of the Royal Academy. In' 1789 he exhibited his first two pictures, the Head of an Old Man and Portrait of a
Gentleman
 . During the next ten years he steadily increased in practice. He was chosen an associate of the Royal Academy in 1798, shortly after Flaxman, and in 'Soo he was made a Royal Academician. In the former year he had married, removed to
Romney
 's
house
  in Cavendish Square, and set up as his successor. Shee continued to paint with great readiness of hand and fertility of invention, although his portraits were eclipsed by more than one of his contemporaries, and especially by Lawrence, Hoppner, Phillips, Jackson and Raeburn. The earlier portraits of the artist are carefully finished, easy in action, with good drawing and excellent discrimination of character. They show an undue tendency to redness in the flesh paintinga defect which is still more apparent in his later works, in which the handling is less " square," crisp and forcible. In addition to his portraits he executed various subjects and historical works, such as Lavinia, Belisarius, his diploma picture Prospero and Miranda, and the Daughter of Jephthah. In 1805 he published a-poem consisting of Rhymes on Art, and it was succeeded by a second part in 1809. Byron spoke well of it in his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, and invoked a place for " Shee and genius " in the temple of fame. Shee published another small volume of verses in 1814, entitled The Commemoration of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other Poems, but this effort did not greatly increase his fame.. He now produced a tragedy called Alasco, of which the scene was laid in Poland. The play was accepted at Covent Garden, but Colman, the licenser, refused it his sanction, on the plea of its containing certain treasonable allusions, and Shee, in great wrath, resolved to make his appeal to the public. This violent threat he carried out in 1824, but Alasco is still on the
list
  of unacted dramas. On the death of Lawrence in 1830, Shee was chosen president of the Royal Academy, and shortly afterwards he received the honour of
knighthood
 . In the dispute regarding the use of rooms to be provided by government, and in his examination before the parliamentary committee of 1836, he ably defended the rights of the Academy. He continued to paint till 1845, and died on the 13th of August 1850.


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