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His Birth of St John the Baptist is one of his most beautiful frescoes in the Basilica of S Maria Novella (1486-90)
One of his most famous works is the old man & his tender regard for his ?grandson. Adoration of the Magi (1479), Old Man & Boy (1480s), Last Supper (1480)
One of Ghirlandaio’s biggest Italian influences was his master Verrocchio as can be seen in the Madonna & Child. St Barbara (1473), Madonna & Child (c1475), Last Supper (1476) & Portrait (1477-8)
Lavery depicted both nationalist & unionist traditions & moved easily between parties. The 12th July, Portadown (1928), Ramsay MacDonald (1931), Sunbathers (1936) & Coronation Procession (1937)
Lavery was involved in Irish politics & gave up his home to the negotiators of the Anglo-Irish treaty. His wife, Lady Lavery, was intimately involved. Mrs E Bowen Davies (1923), Mary Bordem & Her Family At Bisham Abbey(1925), The Green Coat (1926) & Joseph Devlin (1928)
His commercial success allowed him to live a life of ease which he documented in ravishing canvases. My Studio Door, Tangier (1920), The Palladian Bridge At Wilton House (1920), Alpes Maritimes (1921) & The Garden, Villa Sylvia (1921)
He was an official Great War artist but he was obliged to work from the home front due to injury. His first wife died in 1899. Hazel (1911), Wreck of SS Dehli (1912), Switzerland in Winter (1913) & the First Wounded At the London Hospital (1914)
Hazel Martyn, later Lady Lavery, was his great muse. Evelyn Farquhar (1906), Lady Lavery (1906-9), Mrs McEwen & Her Daughters (1907) & Sutton Courtenay (1908)
He took the French approach & applied it to the the English scene. Boating on the Thames (c1890s), The Croquet Party (1890), El Espada (1892) & the White City (1893)
Born in Belfast, he attended the Académie Julian (1870s). He returned & was associated with the Glasgow School. In 1888 he was chosen to depict the Queen & Glasgow Int’nl Exhibit. Pious Reflections (1879-80), a Lady Sewing (1881) A Conquest(1881) & Between the Sittings (1882)