A tall, bright room with plates ranged along the high shelves, and visitors at small tables taking a hot drink out of the Glasgow crowds — Sir John Lavery’s view inside the Dutch Cocoa House at the International Exhibition of 1888.
The pavilion was built by Van Houten, the cocoa makers of Weesp near Amsterdam, and stood close to the exhibition’s main entrance in Kelvingrove Park. Lavery (1856–1941) spent that summer there as the exhibition’s informal artist-in-residence and painted more than fifty small oils of its visitors, kiosks and pavilions. The exhibition’s profits went towards building Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. This canvas, 46 × 36 cm, hangs in the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (NG 2431), bought in 1985 with the aid of the Barrogill Keith Bequest Fund.
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From The Tennis Party of 1885 to the sunbathers of 1936 — people at their ease, in strong light, painted across fifty years.
