Frank McKelvey (3 June 1895 – 30 June 1974) was an Irish painter from Belfast.
McKelvey was born in 1895 in Belfast, the son of a painter and decorator. He attended the Belfast School of Art and won the “Sir Charles Brett” prize for figure drawing there in 1912. By 1918 his exploit was exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy and in 1921 he was elected a advocate of the Belfast Art Society. McKelvey was appointed an belong to of the RHA in 1923, being arranged full association in 1930. During his career McKelvey was considered upon a par behind Paul Henry and James Humbert Craig, two of the most rich Irish landscape painters of the time. He was elected as one of the first academicians of the Ulster Academy of Arts later it was founded in 1930. McKelvey died upon 30 June 1974.
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