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Indulge your wanderlust when you visit this solo exhibition of paintings by the renowned Belfast born artist, Sir John Lavery. Dip your toes in the sun, sea and society of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Travel through the extraordinary life of Lavery as he went 鈥榦n location鈥�, from Scotland to New York via Paris and Morocco. Take in tantalising portraits, impressionistic landscapes and idyllic scenes of leisure against a backdrop of Tangier, Palm Springs and the Venice Lido. Be whisked away to Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and Italy, as well as cities such as Glasgow, Seville, Monte Carlo and New York.

Lavery was primarily a painter of society portraits and contemporary scenes. He studied in Glasgow, in London, and then in the early 1880s in Paris. Between 1885 and 1896 he lived mainly in Glasgow, befriending the artists known as the Glasgow Boys, sharing an interest in their subjects of modern life. He is sometimes referred to as the 鈥楤elfast-born Glasgow Boy'. Lavery鈥檚 later career was spent between London and Morocco, where he acquired a villa, surrounded by beautiful gardens. He travelled a great deal, always with his easel, and recorded everything 鈥� from daylight raids on London during the First World War to tennis parties in the South of France.