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.]] Sir John Lavery ( 20 March , 1856 - 10 January , 1941 ) was an Irish painter best known for his portraits. Belfast-born John Lavery attended the Haldane Academy in Glasgow , Scotland , in the 1870s and the Académie Julian in Paris in the early 1880s. He returned to Glasgow and was associated with the "Glasgow School". In 1888 he was commissioned to paint the state visit of Queen Victoria to the Glasgow International Exhibition . This launched his career as a society painter and he moved to London soon after. In London he became friendly with James McNeill Whistler and was clearly influenced by him. John Lavery's first wife, whom he married in 1889, died of . She modelled for the allegorical figure of Ireland he painted on commission from the Irish government, reproduced on Irish Banknotes from 1928 until 1975 and then as a watermark until the introduction of the Euro in 2002. She is reputed to have had affairs with Michael Collins and Kevin O'Higgins ; the latter died with a letter to her in his pocket. Like . In 1929 John Lavery made substantial donations of his work to both The Ulster Museum and the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery and in the 1930s he returned to Ireland. He received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin and the Queen's University Of Belfast . He was also made a free man of both Dublin and Belfast . He died in County Kilkenny , aged 84, from natural causes. WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
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