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Sir Gerald Festus KellyClarissa - British exhibited art 20's oil painting portrait actress Olive Groves1926
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A large, original portrait of Clarissa. It depicts Olive Groves as Clarissa in Lionel and Clarissa at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith in 1926. Given to Olive Groves in 1966 by Sir Gerald Festus Kelly PRA. It is a fine portrait which was exhibited at The Royal Academy in the late 1960's.
Signed by the sitter verso.
Provenance. Olive Groves.
Condition. Oil on canvas, image size 25 inches by 30 inches and in excellent gallery condition.
Housed in a stunning 18th century carved frame in good condition with gilt removed to reveal carved gesso, 35 by 30 inches.
Sir Gerald Festus Kelly P.R.A. (1879-1972) was a British painter best known for his portraits. Gerald Kelly was born in London, educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge and later lived and studied art in Paris. James McNeill Whistler was an early influence. Kelly travelled much, visiting Spain, America, South Africa and Burma. In 1920 he married Lilian Ryan, who became his model for a celebrated series of portraits. These were exhibited under the title Jane, followed by a roman numeral that corresponded to the year of exhibition. Other sitters included T. S. Eliot, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Somerset Maugham, whom he painted eighteen times. Maugham, a lifelong friend of Kelly, wrote an introduction to a catalogue (1950) of an exhibition of Kelly's work. Maugham regularly portrayed Kelly in his works, as Lionel Hillier in Cakes and Ale, as Frederick Lawson in Of Human Bondage and as O'Malley in His Excellency presenting him as "the young Irish painter called O'Malley", and dedicating Ashenden to him. He became a favourite painter of the Royal Family. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1930, was the Academy's keeper 1943-45 and President, 1949-54. Kelly held a number of official positions, such as his membership of the Royal Fine Arts Commission, 1938-43, and was knighted in 1945. The artist John Napper worked as his assistant. Kelly died in Exmouth in 1972. He is represented in many public collections, including the Tate Gallery, which holds seven works.
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