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| John Lavery Miss Mary Burrell 1895 oil on canvas Burrell Collection, Glasgow |
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| John Lavery Southampton Water 1918 oil on canvas Imperial War Museum, London |
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| John Lavery Mrs Fitzroy Bell 1894 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| John Lavery Loch Katrine 1913 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| John Lavery Alice 1919 oil on board Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| John Lavery Tangier Bay, Sunshine 1920 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| John Lavery Violet Keppel, Mrs Denys Robert Trefusis 1919 oil on board National Trust, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent |
"Born in Belfast, but soon orphaned, John Lavery spent his early years on his uncle's farm. At the age of ten, more family problems led to his relocation to Scotland, where he attended the Haldane Academy in Glasgow. Afterwards he worked as an apprentice photographer. From this experience he developed an ambition to become a portrait painter. Lavery travelled to Paris in 1881 where he studied drawing at the Académie Julian and painting at Colarossi's studio. During his stay at the artists' colony of Grez-sur-Loing in 1883 he discovered landscape painting, absorbing the plein-air methods of the Barbizon and Impressionist schools. In 1885 Lavery returned to Scotland and soon became a leading member of the Glasgow School of Painting. In 1888 he was given the commission of painting the state visit of Queen Victoria to the Glasgow International Exhibition. This task launched him as a society painter and he moved to London soon after, where he set up a portrait studio in Cromwell Place. London remained Lavery's base until the 1930s, when he settled once again in Ireland for the final years of his long life."
– adapted from the Encyclopedia of Visual Artists in Ireland
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| John Lavery Twilight, Lake of Geneva 1924 oil on board Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| John Lavery Anne Moira and the Honourable Mrs Forbes Sempill 1923 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| John Lavery Tennis, Trent Park 1919 oil on canvas William Morris Gallery, London |
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| John Lavery Phyllis Dare ca. 1910-15 oil on panel Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| John Lavery A Convoy, North Sea, from NS-7, painted from an Airship off the Coast of Norway 1918 oil on canvas Imperial War Museum, London |
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| John Lavery The Greyhound (Sir Reginald Lister and Eileen Lavery, Drawing Room, British Legation, Tangier) 1910 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| John Lavery The van Dyck Room, Wilton 1920 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Lavery A Court at Buckingham Palace, 1931 1931 oil on canvas (preparatory sketch for a lost painting) Royal Collection, Great Britain |