Sir John Lavery (1856-1941)

Sir John Lavery was born in Belfast in 1856 and educated in Glasgow, London and Paris.

He worked as an apprentice photographer initially but had ambitions of being a portrait artist and he attended evening classes in art.

He became an official war artist during World War I.

His most famous work was perhaps that of his wife, Lady Hazel Lavery, 'The Red Rose' which was a painting that went through a number of changes before it came to bear the face of the woman who would adorn the Irish Pound note for half a century.

He died in 1941, having published his autobiography "Life Of A Painter" the previous year.

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