Artist: McEvoy, Ambrose
Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA (1877 – 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.
McEvoy was born and baptised in Crudwell, Wiltshire, in 1877, the son of Charles Ambrose McEvoy, a Scottish engineer, and his wife Mary Jane. Encouraged by Whistler, who spotted his talent early on, McEvoy enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London when he was fifteen. At the Slade he was part of the group around Augustus John and William Orpen. McEvoy had the reputation for a fine technical skill in oils, learnt from study with Whistler. He later worked with Walter Sickert in Dieppe. While at the Slade he was fellow pupil of Gwen John, with whom he had an unhappy affair.
During the First World War, McEvoy was attached to the Royal Naval Division from 1916 to 1918 and “painted a number of distinguished sailors and soldiers, now in the Imperial War Museum”, and the National Maritime Museum.
Click here to read McEvoy’s full bio on Wikipedia.
To our knowledge, McEvoy only painted in one place in France (a link to his works will appear here when published):
- Dieppe
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