JOHN

See also:

• JOHN LAVERY (18J7– )

LAVERY (18J7– )  , British painter, was born in Belfast, and received his art training in Glasgow, London and Paris . He was elected associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1892 and academician in 1896, having won a considerable reputation as a painter of portraits and figure subjects, and as LAVIGERIE 293 a facile and vigorous executant . He became also vice-president of the International Society of sculptors, painters and gravers . Many of his paintings have been acquired for public collections, and he is represented in the National Galleries at Brussels, Berlin and Edinburgh, in the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg, the Philadelphia Gallery, the New South Wales Gallery, the Modern Gallery, Venice, the Pinakothek, Munich, the Glasgow Corporation Gallery, and the Luxembourg .