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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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A Convoy,North Sea 1918 new11/Sir John Lavery-328244.jpg Painting ID:: 37917 Visit European Gallery |
mk129 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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