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Gloria Jarvis (British, b. 1925) Harrow schoolboys on the steps of the Chapel at Harrow signed lower right "Gloria Jarvis" watercolour h:27 w:37 cm Exhibited: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (old label refers). Gloria Patricia Henrietta Smith (née Jarvis) was born on 17 March 1925, in London. Her maternal forebears were Italian: her grandfather was from Emilia, a craftsman who came to London to work with the great Malatesta on the mosaics in Westminster Cathedral. Her English father, Rupert Jarvis, was a well-known graphics artist and illustrator. Spurred on by his example, Gloria trained at St Martin's School of Art, in London (under James Bateman , and later at the University of Florence. She graduated with Honours and later became a lecturer on historic costume, and an instructor in costume drawing at the Polytechnic in Regent Street, London. Her parental home was in Harrow-on-the-Hill and some of her most interesting paintings are of Winston Churchill and his involvement with the school there. She lived for many years in Brussels, and worked and exhibited in oils, watercolour, pastel, ink and gouache. She particularly enjoyed creating historic scenes and a couple of such paintings of Brussels have been bequeathed to the Musée international du Carnaval et du Masque, in Binche, Belgium. Paintings inspired under James Bateman have now joined the collection of his work at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Bateman's hometown, while others have been acquired by the Beaney Art Museum, in Canterbury, where she lived in later life. A painting commissioned to hang in the offices of Royal Decree Sherry in St James's, entitled 'Unloading the Sherry, 1950' now is exhibited at the Museum of Docklands, London. Gloria died in Cambridge on 15 November 2014. Condition is fine.