Sir Gerald Kelly
(1879-1972), Painter and President of the Royal AcademySitter in 11 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
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
by Sir Gerald Kelly
oil on canvas, 1953
NPG 4111
probably by Sir Gerald Kelly
bromide print, late 1950s
NPG x132204
probably by Sir Gerald Kelly
bromide print, late 1950s
NPG x132210
probably by Sir Gerald Kelly
bromide print, late 1950s
NPG x132213
probably by Sir Gerald Kelly
bromide print, late 1950s
NPG x132214
after Sir Gerald Kelly
photogravure, (1910)
NPG D36985
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
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