In Morocco · 1913
Impressionism Artist
John Lavery
British·1856–1941
27 paintings in our database
Lavery brought French plein-air naturalism into the Glasgow Boys movement and shaped Edwardian society portraiture across Britain and Ireland. Lavery painted with fluid, broad brushwork, silvery tonal harmonies, and a distinctive sensitivity to outdoor light.
Biography
Sir John Lavery (1856–1941) was an Irish painter, a leading member of the Glasgow Boys, and one of the most fashionable society portraitists of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Trained in Glasgow, London, and Paris, Lavery absorbed plein-air French naturalism — especially the influence of Bastien-Lepage — and applied it to landscapes, tennis-and-garden party scenes, royal portraits, and the Tangier views he produced from his second Moroccan home. He was knighted in 1918 for his WWI war art.
Artistic Style
Lavery painted with fluid, broad brushwork, silvery tonal harmonies, and a distinctive sensitivity to outdoor light. His society portraits emphasize elegance over psychological depth.
Historical Significance
Lavery brought French plein-air naturalism into the Glasgow Boys movement and shaped Edwardian society portraiture across Britain and Ireland.
Paintings (27)
In Morocco
John Lavery·1913
Jockeys and Owners at Epsom
John Lavery·1923
Winter
John Lavery·1913
Study for 'The House of Commons - Ramsay Macdonald addressing the House'
John Lavery·1924
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Église Notre Dame des Arts, Pont de l'Arche (View of the Nave Looking Towards the Choir)
John Lavery·1897
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James Maxton, 1885 - 1946. Labour politician
John Lavery·1933
John McLaren, Lord McLaren, 1831 - 1910. Judge
John Lavery·1902
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Edward Arthur Walton, 1860 - 1922. Artist (With his fiancee Helen Law or Henderson, 1859 - 1945, later Mrs Edward Arthur Walton, as Hokusai and the Butterfly)
John Lavery·1889
Loch Katrine
John Lavery·1913
The Dutch Cocoa House at the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888
John Lavery·1888
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Queen Mary (1867-1953)
John Lavery·1913
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Mary, Princess Royal (1897-1965), later Countess of Harewood
John Lavery·1913
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Air Station, North Queensferry, 1917
John Lavery·1917
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King George V (1865-1936)
John Lavery·1913
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King Edward VIII (1894-1972) when Prince of Wales
John Lavery·1913
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The Family of King George V
John Lavery·1913
James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
John Lavery·1898
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Maggie Teyte
John Lavery·1907
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Sir Lionel Henry Cust
John Lavery·1912
The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, 1913
John Lavery·1913
Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier), Baroness Spencer-Churchill; Sarah Churchill
John Lavery·1915
Irene Vanbrugh
John Lavery·1916
David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
John Lavery·1917
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Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
John Lavery·1921
Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale
John Lavery·1930
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The Chess Players
John Lavery·1929
The Opening of the Modern Foreign and Sargent Galleries at the Tate Gallery, 26 June 1926
John Lavery·1926
Contemporaries
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