Frank McKelvey

[7][3] McKelvey enrolled in the Belfast College of Art part time by attending evening classes until he left his employment in 1911 to study full-time.

[5][3] He returned to David Allen & Sons in 1917 for a short period of time before he began to focus on painting and opened his own studio in 1920.

[2][7] By 1918 his work was exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy[6][7] and in 1921 he was elected a member of the Belfast Art Society.

McKelvey was appointed an associate of the RHA in 1923,[2][4][8] being granted full membership in 1930.

During his career McKelvey was considered on a par with Paul Henry and James Humbert Craig, two of the most successful Irish landscape painters of the time.