Gallery of the Masters 
Sir John Lavery
1856-1941 Ireland/Impressionism-en plein air
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Brief Biography-Sir John Lavery was born in Belfast in 1856 and raised in Scotland. He was an apprentice photographer for three years and set up a studio tinting prints and colouring. Lavery spent a year in London studying at Heatherley’s School before going to France in 1882. There he entered the Académie Julien and was greatly influenced by William Adolphe Bouguereau. The Belgium artist Alfred Stevens also impressed him and, most importantly, Jules Bastien-Lepage. He painted the bridge at Grez fourteen times. In 1887, Lavery met James McNeill Whistle rand they became friends, receiving his knowledgeable instruction. From 1890, he travelled to Morocco and Europe, visiting Spain, where the works of Velasquez influenced him. During the war, Lavery was an official war artist but did his painting in England due to an injury in a car crash. He received a knighthood after the war. In the 1920s, he became involved in Irish politics and painted dominant figures on both sides of the spectrum. His wife Hazel appeared in the Irish pound note until 1976. Sir John Lavery died in Kilkenny in 1941 at the ripe age of 84. |
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Arthur
Griffith
Bridge
at Grez
David
Beatty
David Loyd
George
A Cup
of Chocolate
A Garden
in France
Anna Pavlova
as a Bacchante
Dawn after the
Battle of Langside
The Red
Fan
Boating on
the Thames
His Eminence
Cardinal Logue
Trial of Roger
Casement
Evening
Tangier
Family Group at
Saint Fagans
George the Fifth
Buckingham Palace
City
of Fez
Her First
Communion
Miss Eva
Fulton
Jane
Lavery
Nora
Mrs Lavery
and Alice
On the Bridge
at Grez
On the Loing An
Afternoon Chat
Boats on the Clyde
Hunter's Quay
North Sea
Convoy
Study for
Hazel
Monte
Carlo
The Royal
Family
The Blue
Hungarians
The Bridge
at Grez
The Green
Fofa
Grey
Drawingroom
Rossenarra
Spring
The Tennis
Party
London
Hospital
The White
City
St Patricks
Purgatory
Sewing in
the Shade
The Black
Poodle
The
Greyhound
The
Honeymoon
The Kingdom
of Kerry
The
Madonna-
The Van
Dyck Room
The Weighing
Room
Viscountess-
Winborne
Youth
and Age
A Summer's
Day
Killarney
House
Mrs Lavery
Sketching
Sketch for
a Pupil
Mayfair
Drawing Room
The Rocking
Chair
The Studio
Window
The Tennis
Match
