Education
There he studied under the genre painter James Brenan.
There he studied under the genre painter James Brenan.
Born Henry Thaddeus Jones in 1859, he entered the Cork School of Art when he was ten years old. His first major painting (illustration, right) was hung "on the line" (at eye-level) at the Paris Salon of 1881. He received commissions to paint portraits, among them two papal portrait commissions (for Pope Pius X), and became a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.
He received several other portrait commissions.
His autobiography was titled Recollections of a Court Painter, which he wrote during his retirement in California. Art historian Julian Campbell became interested in Jones, and other mid-to-late-century Irish artists, and assembled the Irish Impressionists exhibition in 1984 at the National Gallery of Ireland.
However, many of the artists exhibited, like Thaddeus, were not strictly Impressionists.