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"SIR JOHN LAVERY (1857-), British painter ( see 16.293), was knighted in 1918. Among his works since 1910 are portraits of Mr. Winston Churchill, Mr. H. H. Asquith, Lord Derby, Mr. John Redmond and Sir Edward Carson, besides " The Madonna of the Lakes "; " Canadians Embarking on the Western Front "; " Sir David Beatty Reading the Terms of the Armistice to the German Delegates " and " Fore Cabin, H.M.S. `Queen Elizabeth,' Rosyth, Nov. 1918." He also painted a number of naval pictures of the fleet at Scapa Flow, which he presented to the Imperial War Museum.