Henry Jones Thaddeus (1859–1929) was a realist and portrait painter born and trained in County Cork, Ireland.

[1] Born Henry Thaddeus Jones in 1859,[2] he entered the Cork School of Art when he was ten years old.

His first major painting, Le Retour du Braconnier (illustration, right), was hung "on the line" (at eye-level) at the Paris Salon of 1881.

[6] His autobiography, titled Recollections of a Court Painter, was written during his retirement in California and published in 1912.

[3] In his latter years he settled in the Isle of Wight, and died there at Ryde, on 1 May 1929.