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Hyde Park Corner, 29th November 1934

Sir John LaveryHyde Park Corner, 29th November 1934

A Southern Sea

Sir John LaveryA Southern Sea

Sir John Lavery Biography

 

SIR JOHN LAVERY RA, RSA, PRP, NP, IS

Belfast 1856 - 1941 Kilmaganny, County Kilkenny

 

It has been claimed that Sir John Lavery belonged to the Glasgow School, the Ulster School, the Irish School and the British School, indicating the versatility and wide-ranging appeal of his artistic accomplishments. His works are greatly admired for his development of the aesthetic value of the sketch, in which each touch of the brush is left undisguised to create a vibrant and atmospheric affect.

 

Born in Belfast, he was orphaned in infancy and brought up by an uncle near Moira, and later, another relative in Ayrshire. As a teenager, Lavery was apprenticed to a Glasgow photographer, and during the late 1870s, attended classes at the Haldane Academy in Glasgow. He then trained at Heatherleys in London and in 1881, settled in Paris, where he studied at the Academie Julian and Atelier Colarossi; during this period he was influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and painted in a plein-air and naturalist style.

 

Lavery returned to Glasgow in 1885 and became one of the leading members of the Glasgow School. He moved to London n 1896 and helped Whistler to found the International Society in 1898, of which he was a Vice-President until 1908. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1911 and helped Whistler to found the International Society in 1898, of which he was Vice-President until 1908. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1911 and became a full Academician in 1921. He was appointed Official War Artist to the Royal Navy in 1917, and was knighted the following year. Lavery travelled extensively during his career, visiting Morocco, Italy, Spain, Germany and Holland, and these visits inspired many of his works.

 

Following the death of his wife, Hazel, in 1935, Lavery set off for Hollywood with the idea of painting the ’stars’. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he was obliged to return and died at Kilmaganny in 1941.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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