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.
by Sir Oswald Birley
oil on canvas, 1920
NPG 5346
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 12 April 1946
NPG x187847
by (Edward) Russell Westwood
bromide print, 1952
NPG x35227
by (Edward) Russell Westwood
bromide print, 1952
NPG x35229
by (Edward) Russell Westwood
bromide print, 1952
NPG x35590
by Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum)
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 17 November 1954
NPG x193456
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