William Conor RHA PRUA OBE (1881-1968)
The Remnants
Oil on canvas, 45 x 35cm (18 x 13½")
Signed

William Conor was born in Belfast and studied graphic design at the Government School of...

William Conor RHA PRUA OBE (1881-1968)
The Remnants
Oil on canvas, 45 x 35cm (18 x 13½")
Signed

William Conor was born in Belfast and studied graphic design at the Government School of Design before being apprenticed to a poster designer. He exhibited at the RHA for the first time in 1918 and continued to do so until the year before his death. During both World Wars Conor was commissioned by the British Government to produce records of soldiers in the form of sketches, some of which were included in an exhibition of war artists at the National Gallery, London in 1941. He spent a number of years in London in the 1920s where he met John Lavery and Augustus John, and in 1926 travelled to America to undertake various portrait commissions. Conor was elected a member of the RHA in 1946. His works can be found in major collections including the Ulster Museum, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Imperial War Museum in London, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

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