Archibald Macfarlane Shannan ARSA
Other names: M'Farlane
Born 1850
Died 1915
Active: 1893 - 1913
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor, builder's apprentice, architect
Educated at Glasgow University, apprenticed to his father the builder Peter Shannan. Worked as an architect in West Africa and in the USA, then switched to a successful career as a sculptor, Trained at the South Kensington School and Paris from 1884-94.
Works
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The Huntsman
1892
Portrait Statue
1893
Bust of Lord Kelvin, LLD
1897 (Presumed)
An Arcadian Shepherd's Dream
1901
Early Jealousies
1901
Lord Kelvin
1901
An Idyll
1906 (Circa)
Mr Harry Alfred Long
1906 (Circa)
Locations
Address 5 Rue Doreau Paris | View on map
1892 - 1893
Address 7 Scott Street Garnet Hill Glasgow | View on map
1894 (Circa) - 1904 (Circa)
Address 1 Scott Street Garnethill Glasgow | View on map
1894 (Circa) - 1897 (Circa)
Address 36A Buccleuch Street Glasgow | View on map
1905 (Circa) - 1916 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
'Music of the Marshes'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1898
'Thos Hunt, Esq., RSW'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1906
'Mr Harry Alfred Long'
Exhibited at The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, 1897
1897
1 of 12 artists, all of the Glasgow School, invited to contribute to The Belfast Art Society's annual exhibition in 1897.
Exhibited at The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, 1893
1893
Exhibited at The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, 1892
1892
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1893 - 1902
Exhibited 5 times, one work each show (all portrait busts apart from 'The Hunter and the Wood Nymph', a bronze group, cat. no. 1712, shown in 1893).
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1894 - 1926
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 20 times: 1894 (1 work), 1895 (1 work), 1896 (1 work), 1897 (3 works), 1898 (2 works), 1899 (1 work), 1902 (1 work), 1903 (3 works), 1904 (1 work), 1905 (3 works), 1906 (1 work), 1907 (1 work), 1908 (2 works), 1909 (1 work), 1910 (1 work), 1911 (3 works), 1912 (1 work), 1913 (1 work), 1916 (3 works) and 1926 (3 works)
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1902
Member of The Glasgow Art Club
1906 (Circa)
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1906 - 16 January 1911
Resigned in 1911 [see separate entry].
Member of committee at The Glasgow School of Art
1898
Examination panel for Modelling
Member of committee at The Glasgow School of Art
1908
Assessment committee
Resigned from Royal Society of British Sculptors
16 January 1911
Resigned in 1911; letter recieved with regret [16 January 1911, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by William Kellock Brown
1898
RSA
Nominated by William Grant Stevenson
1900
RSA
Nominated by James Guthrie
1901
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1901-1902 Seventy-Fourth Annual Publication
p. 1260
Listed under Sculptors
Listed under Sculptors The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1910-1911 Eighty-Third Annual Publication
Sources
A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Second Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1899
1899
p.33, (2).
p.37 (39).
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twelfth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1906
September 1906
p. 51
Annual Report of The Glasgow School of Art 1898
January 1898
p. 4
Annual Report of The Glasgow School of Art 1898
January 1898
Annual Report of The Glasgow School of Art 1908-9
1908
Catalogue of The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, Belfast Public Library, 1892
1892
p. 20
Catalogue of The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, Belfast Public Library, 1893
1893
p. 26, 36
Catalogue of The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, Belfast Public Library, 1897
1897
p. 17, 25
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1898
1898
Cat. No. 578, pp. 53, 74
International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901,
Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section
1901
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Public Sculpture of Glasgow Public Sculpture of Britain Volume Five
2002
p. 498
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
16 January 1911.
The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1901-1902 Seventy-Fourth Annual Publication
1901
p. 1260
Listed under Sculptors
The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1910-1911 Eighty-Third Annual Publication
1910
p. 1393
The Royal Scottish Academy Nomination Book for Associateship, 1897
1897
p. 86
The Royal Scottish Academy Nomination Book for Associateship, 1897
1897
p. 158
Citing this record
'Archibald Macfarlane Shannan ARSA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1210938064, accessed 29 May 2023]
