DOI Heft:
No. 143 (January, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Brinton, Selwyn John Curwen: Some recent paintings by John Lavery, R.S.A., R.H.A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28256#0267
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FORTRAtT OF MRS. BAKER BY JOHN LAVERY
Edinburgh and Glasgow, gave a new impulse to the
movement. A group of younger artists was being
formed under these inftuences, many of whom have
since come to the front—among them James Guthrie,
D. Y. Cameron, Paterson, Christie, George Henry,
and two young friends of the Haldane Academy,
Alexander Roche and John Lavery. The spirit of
revoit against Academic tradition was the link which
united these " Giasgow Boys," whose individuai ten-
dencies were so strong and rich. They hrst exhibited
as a body in the Grosvenor Galiery of 1890, but
before that both Roche and Lavery had gone to
study at the Julian Academy in Paris.
The " Glasgow Boys" had become a power, if
not in Engiand, at least on the Continent, where their
appearance in the Munich Glaspalast caused a sen-
sation and aimost an artistic schism ; and in these
years a succession of hne portraits from Mr. Lavery's
hand—(?72/^7*2*<r (1886), <27?// <Sh73 (same
172
year, now in Venice GaUery of Modern Art),
C7*<7y?7g/.' a /T?7*/7'<Z2'/ (r7*<72%) (l8$o), a Z<2</y 772
r%3<r,$ (t8$2, and again 1898), the hneiy
virile portrait of _/h777M ./?A7%<3M7*3<r^-A^//y
(1898), a (7<37-<A73<7/*A7*<373<r<! (same year, Phiia-
delphia Modern Gaiiery), Z<3 i?<3773^ <3Mar
A7-/M (1900, Dubiin Modern Gailery),
and the delightful LihAT? A*<<3)7^7* (1901)—-
brought him to the front of modern British
art.
That his position was recognised in
Glasgow at the end of the eighties is shown
by the fact that about this time he was com-
missioned by its Corporation to paint the
J?77/7y <7/ Qaw/a ,* and the
Ah/<%<77- <(7z<f Y/cM^/cT*, now in the Luxem-
bourg Gallery, was, I believe, the first pre-
sentment of his daughter Eileen, who appears
PORTRAIT OF MRS. TREVOR
BY JOHN LAVERV
FORTRAtT OF MRS. BAKER BY JOHN LAVERY
Edinburgh and Glasgow, gave a new impulse to the
movement. A group of younger artists was being
formed under these inftuences, many of whom have
since come to the front—among them James Guthrie,
D. Y. Cameron, Paterson, Christie, George Henry,
and two young friends of the Haldane Academy,
Alexander Roche and John Lavery. The spirit of
revoit against Academic tradition was the link which
united these " Giasgow Boys," whose individuai ten-
dencies were so strong and rich. They hrst exhibited
as a body in the Grosvenor Galiery of 1890, but
before that both Roche and Lavery had gone to
study at the Julian Academy in Paris.
The " Glasgow Boys" had become a power, if
not in Engiand, at least on the Continent, where their
appearance in the Munich Glaspalast caused a sen-
sation and aimost an artistic schism ; and in these
years a succession of hne portraits from Mr. Lavery's
hand—(?72/^7*2*<r (1886), <27?// <Sh73 (same
172
year, now in Venice GaUery of Modern Art),
C7*<7y?7g/.' a /T?7*/7'<Z2'/ (r7*<72%) (l8$o), a Z<2</y 772
r%3<r,$ (t8$2, and again 1898), the hneiy
virile portrait of _/h777M ./?A7%<3M7*3<r^-A^//y
(1898), a (7<37-<A73<7/*A7*<373<r<! (same year, Phiia-
delphia Modern Gaiiery), Z<3 i?<3773^ <3Mar
A7-/M (1900, Dubiin Modern Gailery),
and the delightful LihAT? A*<<3)7^7* (1901)—-
brought him to the front of modern British
art.
That his position was recognised in
Glasgow at the end of the eighties is shown
by the fact that about this time he was com-
missioned by its Corporation to paint the
J?77/7y <7/ Qaw/a ,* and the
Ah/<%<77- <(7z<f Y/cM^/cT*, now in the Luxem-
bourg Gallery, was, I believe, the first pre-
sentment of his daughter Eileen, who appears
PORTRAIT OF MRS. TREVOR
BY JOHN LAVERV