Lavery settled in Glasgow in his late teens. He is one of the Glasgow Boys, a group of artists who turned to everyday surroundings for their subject matter, in contrast to Victorian ‘proper’ subjects which were either historical, biblical or literary. When ‘The Tennis Party’ was first exhibited, critics were shocked to see a vulgar game of tennis made the subject of a work of art. Lavery studied art in Paris and was influenced by the French Realist, Bastien Lepage. From Lepage came the preference to paint in the open air and we can see the skill with which Lavery captures the afternoon sunlight filtering through the trees.

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