Artist: Sir John Lavery (1856 - 1941)
Nationality: Irish
Movement: Modern English School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
John Lavery was orphaned at three, and lived with relatives in Scotland. He began a career of retouching photographs, but when his studio burned down, he used the insurance money to attend art schools in London and Paris. In 1885, he founded the Glasgow School, which used French Impressionist techniques. As well as landscapes and genre scenes, Lavery painted portraits, notably of Queen Victoria’s visit to Glascow in 1888. He was knighted in 1918 and worked in diplomacy between England and Ireland for much of the rest of his career.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Sir John Lavery, Mrs. A.B. Spreckels, 19th - 20th century
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John R. H. Lavery - Studies made in the House of Lords before 1922 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Kay, John Campbell of Blythewood, 1784
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John Steuart Curry - John Brown 1938 Lithograph Arkansas Arts Center American
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John Singleton Copley - John Gray 1766 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Vanderlyn - John Sudam 1829-1830 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Wollaston - John Stevens c. 1749-1752 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - John Greene c. 1769 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Mrs. John Greene 1769 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
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John Smibert, John Nelson, 1732
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John Hoppner - John Granville 1790-95 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
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John Smibert - Mrs. John Pitts 1735 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Frazee - John Marshall 1834-35 marble Boston Athenaeum American
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John Durand - Mrs. John Lothrop c. 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Durand - John Lothrop c. 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Johnston - John Peck c. 1795 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Willson Peale - Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr. 1790 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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John Stuart Curry, John Brown, 1939
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John Smith, John Duke of Marlborough, 1705
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John Smith, Sir John Percival Bart, 1704
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John B. Neagle, William Helmuth (or John Henry Helmuth), 1834
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John Singleton Copley - Portrait of John Scollay 1764 black and white chal Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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John R. Johnston - Mrs. John R. Johnston before 1857 salted paper print f Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - The Honorable John Erving c. 1774 oil on canvas Smith College Museum of Art American
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man, Said to Be John Durham, ca. 1790 John Barry (British, active
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: artist unknown Title: Tapestry Fragment of Virgin and St. John Date: about 1520 -
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Faber the Younger, St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, 1754
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John Singleton Copley - Colonel John Montresor c. 1771 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Wesley Jarvis - Commodore John Rodgers c. 1814 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Sartain, John Calvin, 19th century
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John Smith, John Lambert the Elder, (after same), 17th - 18th century
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John Trumbull - John Trumbull 1793 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Hall, King John, Act IV, Scene I, 18th century
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John R. Johnston - John R. Johnston with Painting late 1850's salted paper print f Cleveland Museum of Art American
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William Blake , Fables by John Gay (London: John Stockdale, 1793), vol. 1, 1793
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William Blake , Fables by John Gay (London: John Stockdale, 1793), vol. 2, 1793
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
H.B. (John Doyle), John Wilkes, 18th - 19th century
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John Neagle - The Reverend John Albert Ryan 1825-1829 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American

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Christie's: The Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures and Works of Art on View at Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh
The sale will also profile rare works by lesser-known artists of the Victoria period as the collection spans the key artists and the themes of the period to offer artworks to suit all levels of collecting. "The Forbes Collection of Victorian...

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