The 1893 painting of the Assize d'Heritage, a biannual convening of the Royal Court of Jersey, where the major Seigneurs answer for their fiefs, which they hold directly from the Crown. The painting was purchased by Julia Westaway and donated to the Royal Court, where it still hangs today.
John St Helier Lander (19 October 1868 in Jersey – 12 February 1944 in Witley, Surrey) was a noted portrait painter.[1] Born John Helier Lander, he added the St. to acknowledge his birthplace of Saint Helier in the Channel Islands. He was given his first paint box by Lillie Langtry, the famous beauty, actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales, later to become Edward VII. He studied at Calderon's School.[2]
A self-portrait by Lander
On leaving school, he was sent to become a watchmaker at the age of fifteen, but spent so much time drawing that he was taken away and allowed to paint. On reaching the age of seventeen and having sold some of his pictures, he went to London to study in an art school. Although he remained there a year, he hated the school. He was invited to breakfast with Sir John Everett Millais, a fellow Jerseyman, who advised him to continue his artistic career and to go to Paris. In Paris he studied at the Académie Julian under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Fleury.[3]
Plaque in Belmont Road, Saint Helier, Jersey
After a year in Paris he returned to London to enter the Royal Academy Schools where he stayed for three years, before returning to Jersey and setting up a studio, taking Millais and Walter William Ouless, another distinguished fellow Jerseyman, as ideals in the art of portrait painting. He taught privately at the Jersey Ladies' College (now Jersey College for Girls) and the Guernsey Ladies' College. He undertook an ambitious group portrait of the Assize d'Héritage (known as "The Sitting") which took him four years to complete. In 1897, it was purchased for £400 by Julia Westaway, of the Westaway Trust, and presented to the Royal Court in Jersey where it now hangs.[4]
^Anonymous (1944). Mr. J. St H. Lander. The Times February 15, 1944 p 6
^Balleine, G.R. (1948). A Biographical Dictionary of Jersey, p 351-2. London: Staples Press
^Lander, J. St H. (1939). John St Helier Lander, painter of Royal portraits, by Himself. The Islander Vol 1, Issue 9, pages 4–5
^Le Brocq, P. (1998). The Royal Court and States Building. Publisher unknown
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