John Lavery (1856 – 1941) was born in Belfast, and studied in Scotland at the Glasgow School of Art from about 1874. Lavery achieved his pinnacle in the 1880s, with exhibitions in Europe and America, and as a leading portraitist, he was chosen to paint the State visit of Queen Victoria to the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1888 - there were some 250 portraits in that picture. From 1890 he visited Morocco frequently, and he changed his British base to London in 1896, where he used a studio belonging to Alfred East. During the First World War Lavery was an Official War Artist, and the Imperial War Museum has examples of his work.
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