Collection: John Lavery

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His portrait of Hazel Lavery was on Irish money from 1928 until the euro. His paintings belong on your wall.

Sir John Lavery (1856–1941) was one of the most celebrated Irish painters of his era — born in Belfast, orphaned at three, trained in Glasgow and Paris, and equally at home painting society portraits, sun-drenched Moroccan scenes and the great political events of the early twentieth century. His Impressionist technique, sharp observational eye and command of light make the work as compelling now as the day it was painted.

Browse the full collection of John Lavery art prints — society portraits, Moroccan landscapes, tennis scenes and the Treaty paintings — on archival 250gsm matte paper, framed or unframed, with free worldwide shipping.

Read the story: the shipwreck that orphaned him, the Cromwell Place suppers during the Treaty talks, and how his wife ended up on the banknotes. John Lavery: the Belfast orphan who painted the Treaty →

Three ways to hang Lavery

Sixty-odd works is a catalogue, not a wall. They fall into three sets that hang at one size: Tangier and the Riviera — the sunlight pictures, from the hill-top house he bought in 1903 to Cap d’Ail in 1921; Hazel and the Sitters — the studio portraits, at matching scale; and Summer, Sport and the Sands — from The Tennis Party of 1885 to the sunbathers of 1936. Each set page says why its pictures belong together.

Part of our full Irish Art Prints collection — over 600 works by Ireland's greatest artists.