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Ambrose McEvoy

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58: 131:(1870–1941). In 1907 he held a one-person exhibition at the Carfax Gallery. In 1911 he was a founder-member of the National Portrait Society, and in 1913 he became a member of the International Society. His works that he exhibited at the NEAC were landscapes and interiors. But after about 1915 he established a reputation as a portrait painter of fashionable society beauties, often painted in watercolor in a rapid, sketchy style. 142: 22: 138:, McEvoy was attached to the Royal Naval Division from 1916 to 1918 and "painted a number of distinguished sailors and soldiers, now in the Imperial War Museum", and the National Maritime Museum. 208: 281: 172:
McEvoy died in Pimlico, London, on 4 January 1927. In 1928 he was represented in the Royal Academy Late Members Exhibition. In 1933 he was memorialised together with Orpen and
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Chamot, Mary, Farr Dennis, and Butlin, Martin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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1920 - "Portrait of the Hon. Lois Sturt" by Ambrose McEvoy (Crudwell, Wilts, 1878-1927, London). Oil on canvas
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became a playwright. Encouraged by Whistler, who spotted his talent early on, McEvoy enrolled at the
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McEvoy visited New York and exhibited there at the Duveen Galleries in 1920. In 1924 he was made an
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on Pall Mall from November to January 2019. It included newly rediscovered works.
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Johnson, Claude, (ed.), The Works of Ambrose McEvoy from 1900 to May 1919, 1919
141: 127:(NEAC), and became a member in 1902. In the same year he married the painter 37:(12 August 1877 – 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are 117: 81: 77: 46: 275: 97: 140: 100:
when he was fifteen. At the Slade he was part of the group around
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and of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and of the
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and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by
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ARA
landscapes
James McNeill Whistler
portrait

Francis Derwent Wood
Chelsea Arts Club
Crudwell
Wiltshire
Soho Square
Charles
Slade School of Fine Art
London
Augustus John
William Orpen
Walter Sickert
Dieppe
Gwen John
New English Art Club
Mary Edwards
First World War

Associate of the Royal Academy
Royal Watercolour Society
Grosvenor
Grafton
Leicester Galleries
Charles Ricketts
Philip Mould Gallery

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