# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nelson-shanks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:29:09.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nelson-shanks"
name: "Nelson Shanks"
slug: "nelson-shanks"
description: "John Nelson Shanks was an American artist and painter. His best known works include his portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, first shown at Hirschl & Adler Gallery in New York City, April 24 to June 28, 1996, and the portrait of president Bill Clinton for the National Portrait Gallery."
tagline: "American portrait painter (1937-2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Nelson_Shanks_Self-Portrait.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1937"
deathDate: "2015-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.56
  momentum:             4.166666666666667
  historical:           5.679122666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nelsonshanks.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Shanks"
    title: "Nelson Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Shanks"
    title: "Nelson Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Shanks"
    title: "Nelson Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Shanks"
    title: "Nelson Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "نلسون شنکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Shanks"
    title: "Nelson Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6990735"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump