Ambrose McEvoy

His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler.

Encouraged by Whistler, who spotted his talent early on, McEvoy enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London when he was fifteen.

McEvoy had the reputation for a fine technical skill in oils, learnt from study with Whistler.

It was at this time that McEvoy established a reputation as a portrait painter of fashionable society beauties, often painted in watercolour in a rapid, sketchy style.

A major retrospective exhibition was held at the Philip Mould Gallery on Pall Mall from November to January 2019.