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Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA (12 August 1877 – 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.
Arthur Ambrose McEvoy (12 August 1877 – 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.
Sep 30, 2016 · Described as a modern Gainsborough and tenderly memorialised in The Times as ‘a painter of mood and temperament’ the day after his death, Ambrose McEvoy should have been remembered as one of the most successful British portrait painters of the early twentieth century. Miss Mary Clare c.1915–1920. Ambrose McEvoy (1877–1927) National Museums NI.
Ambrose McEvoy. 1877–1927. British, English. Summary. (b Crudwell, Wiltshire, 12 Aug. 1878; d London, 4 Jan. 1927). English painter. He began as a painter of restful interiors, but from about 1915 he gained great success as a portraitist.
Prime minister 1926. +44 (0)131 624 6200 enquiries@nationalgalleries.org. Ambrose McEvoy was born in Wiltshire. James McNeill Whistler spotted his talent early on and encouraged him to enroll at the Slade School of Fine Art...
Ambrose McEvoy. (1878-1927), Painter. Sitter in 7 portraits. Artist associated with 5 portraits. McEvoy was a fashionable portrait painter. He trained at the Slade School of Art alongside Augustus John and William Orpen and became a member of the New English Art Club (1900).
The son of a Scottish engineer, Arthur Ambrose McEvoy 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.
