Sir John Lavery
(1856-1941), PainterSitter in 19 portraits
Artist associated with 17 portraits
Born in Belfast and brought up on a farm in Northern Ireland, Lavery was apprenticed to a painter-photographer in Glasgow and attended the Glasgow School of Art. He was exhibiting as an independent artist by 1879. He became a society portrait painter and official court painter.
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by Sir John Lavery
oil on canvas, 1898
NPG 2018
by Sir John Lavery
oil on board, 1912
NPG 6337
The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, 1913
by Sir John Lavery
oil on canvas, 1913
NPG 1745
Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier), Baroness Spencer-Churchill; Sarah Churchill
by Sir John Lavery
oil on canvas, circa 1915
NPG 5184
David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
by Sir John Lavery
oil on canvas, 1917
NPG 5581
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
by Sir John Lavery
oil on canvas, 1921
NPG 5836
by Sir John Lavery
oil on canvasboard, circa 1930
NPG 6471
Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale
by Sir John Lavery
oil on canvas, 1930
NPG 6480
by Sir John Lavery
oil on canvas, 1931
NPG 2959
Opening of the Lord Duveen Annexe to the National Portrait Gallery
by Sir John Lavery
oil on board, 1933
NPG 5943
after Sir John Lavery
photogravure, (1916)
NPG D39663
Edward Henry Carson, 1st Baron Carson
after Sir John Lavery
aquatint, published 1917
NPG D32710
Edward Henry Carson, 1st Baron Carson
after Sir John Lavery
aquatint, published 1917
NPG D32711
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
by Norman Hirst, after Sir John Lavery
mezzotint, 1918
NPG D49384
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