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{{Short description|British painter (died 1767)}}
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[[File:George II by Shakelton.JPG|thumb|200px|George II by John Shackleton, 1758 ([[Foundling Hospital]]) – this image was given by the artist in May 1758, in return for which he was elected a governor and guardian of the hospital]]
'''John Shackleton''' (died 16 March 1767) was a British painter and [[drawing|draughtsman]] who produced [[history painting]]s and portraits. His parents and origins are unknown.

==Output==
[[File:Henry Pelham.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Henry Pelham, by Shackleton]]
Shackleton painted several surviving portraits, for example of [[Henry Pelham]] (National Portrait Gallery), [[William Windham]] (1717–1761; now at [[Felbrigg Hall]], Norfolk), and of [[John Bristowe]], steward to the [[Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne|first duke of Newcastle]] (now in the [[Reitlinger Museum of Fine Art]], [[Maidenhead]]).

From 1749 he was [[Principal Painter in Ordinary]] to [[George II of Great Britain|George II]] and [[George III]].<ref name="Redgrave Redgrave 1878 p. 388">{{cite book |last1=Redgrave |first1=S. |last2=Redgrave |first2=F.M. |title=A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists: with Notices of Their Lives and Work |publisher=G. Bell and sons |year=1878 |url=https://archive.org/details/adictionaryarti00redggoog |access-date=1 May 2019 |page=[https://archive.org/details/adictionaryarti00redggoog/page/n408 388]}}</ref><ref name="Ormond 1977 p. 30">{{cite book |last=Ormond |first=R. |title=The Face of Monarchy: British Royalty Portrayed |publisher=Phaidon |year=1977 |url=https://archive.org/details/faceofmonarchybr0000ormo |url-access=registration |access-date=1 May 2019 |page=[https://archive.org/details/faceofmonarchybr0000ormo/page/30 30]|isbn=9780714817620 }}</ref> He continued to be paid for portraits of the king and queen up even during 1765–6, when their ''official'' portraits were being done by [[Allan Ramsay (artist)|Allan Ramsay]]. Several examples of his and his studio's output of royal portraits survive – one of George II dated 1755 is in the [[Scottish National Portrait Gallery]], Edinburgh; another of George II in Room 2 of the [[British Museum]], London (commissioned by the museum in 1759 – the Museum also holds engravings after his paintings), along with two more of George II in the Royal Collection and others in [[Fishmongers' Hall]], London, and [[Maidenhead]] Museum.

==Life==
He was a member of the 1755 committee that drew up the first proposal for siting a [[Royal Academy|royal academy]] in London. On 8 March 1758 he was elected to be a member of the [[Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce]], then in its infancy. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists from 1763 to 1766.

Among the legatees of his will, dated 8 March 1767, were his ‘dear friend Mrs Sarah Rice’, ‘two marble heads said to be done by [[Bernini]] to my intimate friend Mr Robt [D?]ossie of [[Wardour Street]], Soho’, and ‘a half-length picture of a Lady by [[Anthony van Dyck|Vandyke]] and a small landscape by [[Gaspar Poussin]] to John Bristow Esqr Keeper of [[menagerie|His Majesties Lions]] in the [[Tower of London|Tower]]’.

==Marriage and issue==
On 25 October 1742 (as a parishioner of [[St George's, Hanover Square]], London) he married Mary Ann Regnier.

==Sources ==
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* J. R. Fawcett-Thompson, ‘The elusive Mr. Shackleton: light on the principal painter in ordinary to King George II and George III’, The Connoisseur, 165 (1967), 232–9
* B. Stewart and M. Cutten, The dictionary of portrait painters in Britain up to 1920 (1997), 417 · Waterhouse, 18c painters, 341
* J. Kerslake, National Portrait Gallery: early Georgian portraits, 1 (1977), 91, 93, 101, 204, 208–9
* O. Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and early Georgian pictures in the collection of her majesty the queen, 2 vols. (1963), vol. 1, 26, 150; vol. 2, nos. 567–8
* O. Millar, The later Georgian pictures in the collection of her majesty the queen, 1 (1969), xiii n.15, xli
* [[Horace Walpole]], Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists, ed. [[James Dallaway]], [rev. and enl. edn], 2 (1826), 711
* [[Samuel Redgrave]], ''Artists''
* [[John Chaloner Smith]], ''British Mezzotinto Portraits'', 1 (1878), 317; 2 (1879), 677–8
* Engraved Brit. ports., 1.245; 2.298, 456; 3.437
* B. Nicholson, The treasures of the Foundling Hospital, with a catalogue raisonné based on a draft catalogue by John Kerslake (1972), 32, 34, 50, 78, no. 74
* will, PRO, PROB 11/928, fols. 48r–49r

==External links==
* {{commons category-inline}}
* {{cite ODNB|id=25186|title=Shackleton, John}}. {{DNBfirst|wstitle=Shackleton, John}}
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp07543&role=art Portraits by Shackleton at the] [[National Portrait Gallery, London]]
* {{Art UK bio}}

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John Shackleton - Revision history

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