Henry Jones Thaddeus

Who was Henry Jones Thaddeus?

Henry Jones Thaddeus was a realist and portrait painter born and trained in County Cork, Ireland.

Born Henry Thaddeus Jones in 1859, he entered the Cork School of Art when he was ten years old. There he studied under the genre painter James Brenan. Thaddeus won the Taylor Prize in 1878 enabling him to go to London, and then again in 1879 enabling him to continue his studies in Paris at the Académie Julian. His first major painting was hung "on the line" at the Paris Salon of 1881.