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William Conor

William Conor (1881 - 1968) was active/lived in Ireland.  William Conor is known for Figure, portrait and working-class genre painting.

William Conor OBE, RHA, RUA (1881-1968)

The Irish figure and portrait painter William Conor, noted for his sympathetic genre-paintings of working-class life in Ulster, was born in Belfast, the son of a wrought-iron worker. At the age of 10, the skill and dexterity of his chalk drawings was noticed by a teacher who arranged for him to attend the Government School of Design in Belfast.

After initially working as a commercial designer, William Conor was commissioned by the British wartime government to produce official records of soldiers and munitions workers.
In 1920, he moved to London where he met such artists as John Lavery and Augustus John.  In 1921, he exhibited at the Royal Academy (RA) and continued showing at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). From 1918-1967, he exhibited more than 200 works at the RHA. He became an Associate RHA in 1938 and a full member in 1946. He focused on oil painting but executed a number of watercolours and crayon drawings.

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