Born in Lincolnshire, the son of a vicar, Shannon studied at Lambeth Art School. Lithographer, designer, illustrator and painter and, with his friend and companion Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), collector and publisher. He was elected R.A. in 1920 but, following an accident while hanging a painting, he suffered brain damage in 1928 and never wholly recovered. Died in Kew. Ricketts and Shannon owned a large collection of Burne-Jones drawings which they bequeathed, together with many other works, to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Another interest they shared with Cecil French was a love of Japanese prints of which they were pioneer collectors

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