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Ambrose McEvoy (12 August 1878 – 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill He was born in Crudwell, Wiltshire. Encouraged by Whistler, who spotted his talent early on, McEvoy enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London when he was fifteen. At the Slade he was part of the group around Augustus John and William Orpen. McEvoy had the reputation for a fine technical skill in oils, learnt from study with Whistler. He later worked with Walter Sickert in Dieppe. While at the Slade he was fellow pupil of Gwen John, with whom he had an unhappy affair. He exhibited at the New English Art Club (NEAC) from 1900, and became a member in 1902. He was a founder-member of the National Portrait Society in 1911, and became a member of the International Society in 1913. He was made an Associate of the Royal Academy and of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1924, and of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1926. He held a one-man exhibition at the Carfax Gallery in 1907. He also exhibited at the Grosvenor, Grafton and Leicester Galleries. McEvoy visited New York and exhibited at the Duveen Galleries there in 1920. At NEAC he exhibited landscapes and interiors. After about 1915 he established a reputation as a portrait painter of fashionable society beauties, often painted in watercolour in a rapid, sketchy style. During World War I he was attached to the Royal Naval Division from 1916–18, and "painted a number of distinguished sailors and soldiers, now in the Imperial War Museum",[1] and the National Maritime Museum. His wife Mary (nee Edwards) (1870–1941), whom he married in 1902, was a painter of interiors with figures, flowers, and portraits. McEvoy died in London on 4 January 1927. He was represented in the Royal Academy Late Members Exhibition in 1928. He was memorialized together with Orpen and Charles Ricketts in an exhibition in Manchester in 1933. Notes 1. ^ Tate Collection: Ambrose McEvoy
Chamot, Mary, Farr Dennis, and Butlin, Martin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II Johnson, Claude, (ed.), The Works of Ambrose McEvoy from 1900 to May 1919, 1919 R[eginald]. M. Y.G.[leadowe], Ambrose McEvoy, 1924 ‘Wigs’, The Work of Ambrose McEvoy, 1923
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