John Lavery

Sir John Lavery RA ( born March 20, 1856 in Belfast, † January 10, 1941 County Kilkenny) was an Irish portraitist and landscape painter.

Life

Lavery was a student of Haldane Academy in Glasgow, at the age of 23, he moved in 1879 to the Heatherly School of Art; where he was the classmate of William Lionel Wyllie. In 1891, he was supported by his teachers, to Paris at the Académie Julian. There he became a student of William Adolphe Bruguereau and Tony Robert -Fleury and with their consent could Lavery during the summer months work in and around Glasgow as a landscape painter, and during the winter he learned under the supervision of the Academy.

After his return to the UK, Lavery settled in Glasgow, where he was soon one of the most important representatives of the Glasgow Boys. In 1899 he married Kathleen MacDermott and had with her a daughter, Eileen ( 1890-1935 ). His wife died the following year, weakened from birth to Tbc 1909 Lavery married his second wife Hazel Martyn ( 1897-1935 ), which brought her daughter Alice in marriage.

As a member of the artists' colony of Grez -sur -Loing in the Seine -et -Marne 1883, it was under the influence of Jules Bastien -Lepage one of his most famous paintings, "The Bridge at Grez ". This year he was also the first time at the great exhibition of the Salon de Paris.

From 1886 Lavery could regularly attend the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. As a member of the Glasgow Brotherhood he was, inter alia, represented along with James Guthrie and Alexander Roche also at exhibitions in Munich Glass Palace or the Grosvenor Gallery in London.

1888 Lavery was commissioned by Glasgow City Council, 1888 to film the visit of Queen Victoria on the occasion of the International Exhibition on canvas. After two years the work was handed over and issued.

After the death of his first wife Lavery undertook repeatedly extended trips to the Mediterranean and North Africa. He also liked to spend the winter months in Tangier ( Morocco), where then emerged many pictures of him.

1897/98 Lavery founded along with James McNeill Whistler, the International Society of sculptors, painters and etchers and ran it until 1908 as Vice President. 1911 he was appointed " associate " of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1921 and took him on as a member. In 1918 he was knighted

Anna Pavlova, about 1915

A Lady in Brown, about 1915

Works (selection)

  • The artist 's studies.
  • Lady Lavery with her daughter Alice and step -daughter Eileen.
  • The bridge of Grez.
  • The lady in black. 1894
  • Sir John Thomas Gilbert.
  • Polyhymnia.
  • King George V and his family.
  • A garden in France. 1898
  • Hazel in rose and gold.
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