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Sir John Lavery
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A Convoy,North Sea 1918
Painting ID:: 37917
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Sir John Lavery
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Irish Painter, 1856-1941
Irish painter. The son of an unsuccessful publican, he was orphaned at the age of three and was brought up by relatives, initially in the north of Ireland and then in Ayrshire. He became an apprentice retoucher to a Glasgow photographer and attended the Haldane Academy, Glasgow, in the 1870s. After spending a winter term at Heatherley's School of Art, London, he moved in 1881 to Paris where he studied at the Acad?mie Julian. At this time he was influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and painted in a plein-air naturalist style |
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Lavery is better known as a portrait painter.
He was one of he first artists to paint naval activity from the air.
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Related Paintings::.
| Branch of the Seine near Giverny | The Wounds Van St. Franciscus Xaverius | Scenes from the Passion of Christ (detail) sg | |
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