Sir Gerald Kelly
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Sir Gerald Kelly was one
of the 20th Century’s foremost British artists. Largely self-taught,
he had by the start of World War One become one of the leading society
portraitists. He painted the Coronation Portraits of King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth, and in 1949 was elected President of the Royal Academy. This portrait is number 6 in a series of
studies of Saw Ohn Nyun, a member of the Thi-Paw royal family, in Burma.
Exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition of Works by Sir Gerald Kelly, K.C.V.O., P.R.A.,1957, no. 274; City of Plymouth Art Gallery and Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by Sir Gerald Kelly, June 1958; St. James's Art Society for the Deafened; Art Exhibitions Bureau, 6½ Suffolk Street, Pall Mall East, London SW1, Burmese Paintings