I very much enjoyed Graham Ogilvy’s review of the ‘Lavery on Location’ exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Having already seen this superb exhibition at both the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and, more recently, at the Ulster Museum, I completely agree that it is not to be missed.

But I must point out one inaccuracy in Graham’s review — when orphaned at three years of age, the young John Lavery spent his next few years on his uncle’s farm outside Moira, Co Down in Northern Ireland.

It was only when he reached school age that he was sent to live with a relative in Glasgow where he eventually found fame as one of the ‘Glasgow Boys’.

Even at the height of his success in London many years later, he never forgot his Ulster roots and he made a gift of 35 of his works to what was eventually to become the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

David Lavery