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JOHN LAVERY, War Artist
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Biography
John Lavery was born in Belfast and attended the Haldane Academy, in Glasgow, and later at the Julian Academy in Paris in the &#;s. In he painted Queen Victoria during one of her state visits to the Glasgow International Exhibition, which helped to initiate his career. Lavery&#;s wife died from tuberculosis in , and in he remarried to Hazel Lavery, a beautiful Irish-American who was to feature in many of his paintings.
Although appointed as an official war artist, ill-health and a serious car crash during a Zeppelin bombing raid prevented him from travelling to the Western Front. He spent his time in Britain painting planes, boats and airships.
In he was knighted and elected to the Royal Academy, and later that decade made large donations of his work to the Ulster Museum and the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery.
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Tredynas Days
Mrs TD’s father was Irish and she has quite a few relatives living in the Republic of Ireland. My ancestry is also Irish, though mostly from N. Ireland. We recently went to visit some of her cousins and other extended family there.
He took us to some of our favourite places in the area, and several we’d not seen before. There was a magical drive across the Wicklow mountains to the village where some of Mrs TD’s ancestors are buried. Several pints of Guinness were involved in some delightful rural pubs. At one, high in the hills above Dublin city, we asked an old chap sitting at a table if it was ok to join him. He had wild white hair like the Doc in Back to the Future.
He obviously heard our English accents. ‘You’re not from round here, are you?’ he asked, a little truculently. We agreed we were not. ‘I am’, said L. They swapped backgrounds, and it turned out that this Doc chap had lived next door to L’s old house on the outskirts of Dublin. ‘Your dad used to keep the Jersey cows?’ he said, suddenly becoming full of bonhomie. ‘My mother used to look after you when you were little!’ Small world, Ireland.
L had arranged some family gatherings at his house. Mrs TD was thrilled to meet more relatives for the first time. We got talking about my own ancestors: