Now welcome to the art section of our evening painting with Derek Ross where we talk pretentious cobblers for about 10 minutes in especially pretentious 10-dentious style. In any case let's have one of my favorite painters and I'm still having to find something more than the bed and zoom for this. This is John Leverey and go away cookies. Sir John Leverey, portrait painter was born on the 20th of March 1856 in Belfast, son of Henry Leverey, a poor wine and spirit merchant who embarked in Liverpool on the immigrant Clipper Permania. Now I believe that painters sell their work by looking at their painting. I could read all this stuff out about his background and I will give you the links so you can read about it if you like. But here is Sir John Leverey's one of his most famous paintings. This is Michael Collins on his deathbed with the ironic or possibly not depends how he wishes to interpret this painting for love of Ireland in the background and a number of the traditional icons of Ireland on the top. You've got a tricolor flag of course and you've got a crucifix and you've got of course that giant red pillow which looks like sort of Michael Collins is going to have a sofa in the afterlife it would appear. No, no friends men but on one hand it's a kind of iconic and fairly sort of muted depiction of a figure whose looms large in Irish history. You can't keep Scussman Irish history without Scussing Michael Collins. He will enter the room somewhere along the line and somewhere close behind him the ghost of devilier or walking and there will usually be an argument about the two of them that will start up five minutes later. But on the other hand is it telling you that this is the cost of the love of Ireland but perhaps there are other ways to love Ireland. Is this the cost of patriotism and is it a valid cost? Collins was a fendent of Laverie in real life and of Lady Laverie. He's a wife. Readers of a certain age who have some Irish background who are travelled in Ireland or have our relatives will recognise this painting of Lady Laverie as Cacly de Hula-Hann because it would decorate notes for many years and wasn't all the bank notes. It was stuck all over them. Every time you picked up a note you'd find this staring at you. I have notes left over from when I was a kid travelling to see relatives where this in a slightly different form is more monochrome. We'll stare back out at you. Now let me see if I can find some other works by Laverie. As I say painters to me the best way to look at their work rather than me lecturing about their life history which I could do a great length and read out that in a entire document and an extremely boring way. It said let you look at their artwork. Here's the Red Rose which is another famous thing. Again it's Lady Laverie. He had an obsession for painting his own wife. This is one of those posters site where you can order these in sort of if you are so a kind, I'm not suggesting anyone do, I'm only using it because it can be used as a gallery. King George V, the company by Queen Mary, the opening of the modern foreign unsargent gallery. You would notice the looseness of paint where it's just slapped all over the canvas in that almost impressionistic style and that huge level of contrast. In fact, let me go back to the beginning a bit. The jockey is dressing room. Again, nice lively contrasts. Luce you some paint. But if you stand back and I've seen most of these paintings in real life, they look full of motion and you almost feel like you're in the scene. Three is deserves a reputation as a great painter. The golf course, the Burek. This looks unfortunately really boring on a screen this particular painting. It's not in real life if you stand next to it. But unfortunately it does indicate how paintings can look very flat and dead on a screen. Sam Courtney, Samar on the river of the Wharf. Again, this painting is best seen in real life where it looks a lot more alive. You get the image of people on a nice outing. Throw a moment frozen in time from a particular period. Japanese Switzerland. And here you can see Laverie was going for a particular manoured Japanese look that was popular in artwork of the time where people were boring from Japanese art and boring particular poses and sort of settings. Bading in the Lido at Venice. Again, a moment of frozen in time from a world that's gone and that's the joy of painting. And it's also the melancholy that these moments are gone and won't come back. Le Morte Signi and above, obviously it's from Swad Lake. Again, a frozen moment. And of course it has to be an artificial moment because there's no way of course you could absolutely capture and above lower exactly that moment without using photos and preparatory studies. So it shows both the art officially of painting and the ability to capture a moment in time. Mrs. Laverie sketching, as I said, John Laverie had an obsession with painting the Mrs. Evelyn Farquhar, a well-moderately famous upper class woman of a day. You can look around if you're so inclined. Of course, the sign you painted as a going to paint who members of upper class society. Mrs. Guthrie, someone's trying for extreme impressionism here it would seem. I'm bouting on the terms again, moments of a frozen time. It's only a brief presentation but I thought we'd do another of Derek. Does he's pretentious painting talks to see if anyone enjoys the artist? You never know. Someone might find an artist that they like that they've never heard of.