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John Lavery, born in Belfast to a catholic family, was orphaned early in life. He moved to Glasgow and worked as a photographers assistant, before taking art classes at the Haldene Academy. In 1881 he attended the Academie Julian in Paris, and, on a visit to Grez three years later, was influenced by the work of Frank O'Meara and other 'plein air' painters who worked there. He subsequently painted in Scotland and England as well as Ireland, but his plein air work is mainly associated with France and with Tangiers, where he bought a house. In England, his fasionable portrait practice thrived, particularly after he painted the British Royal family in 1913. Lavery was an official war artist for the British Royal Navy during the First World War. He was a highly versatile artist and moved freely in the highest echelons of society, both in Britain and on the Continent.
On a painting trip to Brittany in 1904, Lavery, a widower since 1891, met Hazel Martyn (1887 - 1935), the daughter of a Chicago industrialist of Irish extraction. She was then engaged to a Canadian doctor, who died shortly after their marriage. In 1909 she and Lavery married. Hazel, a beautiful and fashionable woman who herself liked to draw and paint, became Lavery's most frequent sitter. Her well known face and the characteristic red, purple and gold colour harmonies make The Red Rose immediatly recognisable as a portrait of her. However, the canvas was begun in 1892 as a portrait of Mrs William Burrell. In 1912 it was transformed into a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, and in the early twenties it was, for a brief period, a portrait of Viscountess Curzon.
Hazel Laverys face became well known to Irish people because it was her engraved portrait which graced the Irish pound note until the 1970's. The Irish Free State government invited Lavery to paint his wife's portrait for the currency as a token of gratitude for the help he and Hazel - by then Sir John and Lady Hazel - gave to the Irish delegation during the negotiations for the Anglo-Irish Treaty in London in 1921. The Laverys lent their splendid house at Cromwell Place in South Kensingston to the Irish delegation, led by Michael Collins.
[edit par Mara]aïe, ton image passe plus Lucie, sinon, là, à la place du tableau, on a un homme nu , de dos, poilu et pô beau qui milite contre les vols de links[edit]
The Red Rose (1923)
Ambulance Train, 1918
The Wreck Of The SS Delhi, Sid Cassim, Morocco, 1912
Figures On The Beach
un de mes préférés
A Wet Day, Concarneau, 1904
le site : http://home.earthlink.net/~roethe/irish1/LaveryA.html
John Lavery, born in Belfast to a catholic family, was orphaned early in life. He moved to Glasgow and worked as a photographers assistant, before taking art classes at the Haldene Academy. In 1881 he attended the Academie Julian in Paris, and, on a visit to Grez three years later, was influenced by the work of Frank O'Meara and other 'plein air' painters who worked there. He subsequently painted in Scotland and England as well as Ireland, but his plein air work is mainly associated with France and with Tangiers, where he bought a house. In England, his fasionable portrait practice thrived, particularly after he painted the British Royal family in 1913. Lavery was an official war artist for the British Royal Navy during the First World War. He was a highly versatile artist and moved freely in the highest echelons of society, both in Britain and on the Continent.
On a painting trip to Brittany in 1904, Lavery, a widower since 1891, met Hazel Martyn (1887 - 1935), the daughter of a Chicago industrialist of Irish extraction. She was then engaged to a Canadian doctor, who died shortly after their marriage. In 1909 she and Lavery married. Hazel, a beautiful and fashionable woman who herself liked to draw and paint, became Lavery's most frequent sitter. Her well known face and the characteristic red, purple and gold colour harmonies make The Red Rose immediatly recognisable as a portrait of her. However, the canvas was begun in 1892 as a portrait of Mrs William Burrell. In 1912 it was transformed into a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, and in the early twenties it was, for a brief period, a portrait of Viscountess Curzon.
Hazel Laverys face became well known to Irish people because it was her engraved portrait which graced the Irish pound note until the 1970's. The Irish Free State government invited Lavery to paint his wife's portrait for the currency as a token of gratitude for the help he and Hazel - by then Sir John and Lady Hazel - gave to the Irish delegation during the negotiations for the Anglo-Irish Treaty in London in 1921. The Laverys lent their splendid house at Cromwell Place in South Kensingston to the Irish delegation, led by Michael Collins.
[edit par Mara]aïe, ton image passe plus Lucie, sinon, là, à la place du tableau, on a un homme nu , de dos, poilu et pô beau qui milite contre les vols de links[edit]
The Red Rose (1923)
Ambulance Train, 1918
The Wreck Of The SS Delhi, Sid Cassim, Morocco, 1912
Figures On The Beach
un de mes préférés
A Wet Day, Concarneau, 1904
le site : http://home.earthlink.net/~roethe/irish1/LaveryA.html
