Are you an active person? You can’t sit for a long while, you have to be always on the move? Well, then this is a short collection just for you: sports paintings by Sir John Lavery, an Irish painter associated with the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Impressionism. If you a have a while, look up his intriguing female portraits (I feel I’ll write a post about them pretty soon) and his paintings from the World War I.
Task for extra points: Look carefully – how many balls can you spot?
![The Chess Players 1929 Sir John Lavery 1856-1941 Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1930 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N04544](https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the-chess-players-1929.jpg)
![sirjohnlaveryarally1885](https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/SirJohnLaveryARally1885.jpg)
![Sir John Lavary, Lady on a Safety Tricycle, 1885, London, Government Art Collection](https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/images5Clarger5C07463.jpg)
![Sir John Lavery, The Croquet party, 1890, Private collcetion](https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/display_image-1.jpg)
I know, I know, all of them depict women… I just wanted to show that women’d been active before they started to wear trousers. So now, when it’s easier, we have no excuses, so let’s start moving! 🙂