The
Red Rose
Sir John Lavery -- Irish
painter
1923
Crawford
Art Gallery
Oil
on Canvas
102.3
x128 cm
Jpg:
Irish Impressionists
On a painting trip to Brittany in 1904, Lavery, a widower since 1891,
met Hazel Martyn (1887-1935), the daughter of a Chicago industrialist of
Irish extraction. She was then engaged to a Canadian doctor, who died shortly
after their marriage. In 1909 she and Lavery married. Hazel, a beautiful
and fashionable woman who herself liked to draw and paint, became Lavery's
most frequent sitter. Her well known face and the characteristic red, purple
and gold colour harmonies make The Red Rose immediately recognisable as
a portrait of her. However, the canvas was begun in 1892 as a portrait
of Mrs William Burrell. In 1912, it was transformed into a portrait of
Sarah Bernhardt, and in the early twenties it was, for a brief period,
a portrait of Viscountess Curzon.
John
Singer Sargent
Hazel,
Lady Lavery
1923
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