page_title: Lowes Dalbiac Luard
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Lowes Dalbiac Luard / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: A view head-on to the wing nicelle and propeller of a plane as male and female ground crew gather around to do repairs.
context_page_description: Lowes Dalbiac Luard was a British painter.
context_section_description: Luard was born in Calcutta, the son of a colonel in the Royal Engineers. Educated in England, and having won a place at the University of Oxford to study mathematics at Balliol, he decided instead to study art, and in 1892 enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where his contemporaries included Augustus John and Ambrose McEvoy. He left the Slade in 1897 and then studied in Paris under Lucien Simon and Rene Menard. He moved to Paris in 1905 with his wife Louey and their baby daughter Veronica and, except for the war years, lived in the city for almost thirty years. In Paris he became well known for his paintings and drawings of large working horses. Two of his most notable paintings, Timberhauling on the Seine (1914) and Percherons at Water (1911), are from this period.
caption: Pressing Repairs (Art.IWM ART LD 4227)
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