Admiralty Arch Victory Parade 1919 – John Lavery

London, 19th July 1919. The war has been over for eight months. The city is ready to feel something other than dread.

Lavery painted the Victory Parade from his vantage point on Carlton House Terrace, looking down as troops and crowds moved through Admiralty Arch beneath Allied flags. The scale is immense — thousands of figures, the vast London sky, the ceremonial weight of a world trying to remember what peacetime felt like. Among the marching units: 120 members of the Women's Legion, making their own history in the same frame.

Lavery captured the day not as a document but as a feeling. The relief. The noise. The light on all those upturned faces.

Sir John Lavery (1856–1941) was born in Belfast, trained in Glasgow and Paris, and served as an Official War Artist. His work hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Imperial War Museum, the Tate, and major collections worldwide.

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• 40x50 cm / 16x20″
• Available framed (black, white, wood) or unframed

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