Sir Gerald Kelly (1879-1972), Painter and President of the Royal Academy
Sitter in 10 portraits
Artist associated with 27 portraits
Sir Gerald Kelly was a portrait and landscape painter. Born in London, he was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, after which he studied and continued to live for some years in Paris. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, Paris (Sociétaire 1904) and at the Royal Academy from 1909. Kelly was a founder-member of the Modern Portrait Painters Society, started in 1907, and of the National Portrait Society in 1910.
Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger
by Sir Gerald Kelly
oil on canvas, 1920
NPG 5571
Lewis Waller (William Waller Lewis)
by Sir Gerald Kelly
oil on canvas
NPG 5795
by Sir Gerald Kelly
oil on canvas, circa 1936
On display at British Academy, London
NPG 5285
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Sir Gerald Kelly
oil on canvas, circa 1938
NPG 4962
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
by Sir Gerald Kelly
oil on canvas, 1940
NPG 5287
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
by Sir Gerald Kelly
oil on canvas, 1953
NPG 4111
by Sir Gerald Kelly
oil on canvas, 1958-1961
NPG 4829
published by Emery Walker Ltd, after Sir Gerald Kelly
photographic reproduction, after 1926
NPG D37555
after Sir Gerald Kelly
photograph of painting, (circa 1938-1945)
NPG D34122
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
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