Description
The Tennis Party
by Sir John Lavery
Image/Paper Size (no border): 36 x 12 ins / 90 x 30 cm
In 1885, Lavery produced a whole series of images inspired by the social rituals associated with tennis, which culminated in this masterpiece of modern life painting, The Tennis Party. It is a beautiful representation of the emerging sport of lawn tennis, and of the developing social conventions of the late Victorian period