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10:00 - 17:00, Friday 27 January - Sunday 15 April
This exhibition showcases the Ulster Museum's collection of paintings by Sir John Lavery R.A. 1856-1941. In 1929 Sir John Lavery gave thirty-four of his paintings, representing all periods of his career, to the newly opened Belfast Museum and Art Gallery.
This exhibition celebrates that gift and brings together many of Lavery’s best-loved paintings from the Ulster Museum collection.
Born in Belfast, Lavery began his career in Glasgow. During the 1880s he visited Paris and the artist’s colony at Grez-sur-Loing where he painted Under the Cherry Tree (1884). In 1888 he was commissioned to record The State Visit of Queen Victoria to the Glasgow International Exhibition and the resulting studies launched his career as a society portraitist.
Lavery perfected the oil sketch as a means of planning his compositions and during his frequent travels to North Africa, Switzerland and France he evolved subtle colour harmonies which show the influence of Whistler.
Image: The Bridge at Grès (1901) by Sir John Lavery 1856-1941 © National Museums Northern Ireland. Click image to enlarge. To purchase a print of this image online please visit our Online Picture Library.
Exhibition information
This exhibition is on display in Art 3 and is free to attend.
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