James Sinton Sleator (1886–1950), was an Irish artist, born in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland.
Painter of portraits and yet life, James Sleator was son of William Slator (different spelling, as James untouched this, along gone his center name from Samuel to Sinton), who taught at Derryvane National School, near Portadown, and was sophisticated principal of Strandtown National School, Belfast. The son studied at Belfast School of Art and in 1910 secured a scholarship for assay at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, where he was under Sir William Orpen (1878–1931) and won several prizes. Continuing his studies at the Slade School of Art, London, from there he went to Paris. He returned to Dublin in 1915 to become a moot at the metropolitan. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1917, and he became a aficionada in the thesame year. Five years highly developed he went to Florence bearing in mind he painted portraits and landscapes, finally returning to London where he set in the works a studio (1927) as a portrait painter and where he was contiguously associated taking into consideration William Orpen. Sleator was a aficionado of the Chelsea Arts Club and exhibited at the Royal Academy and like the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He taught painting to Winston Churchill, taking greater than the job from Orpen. In 1935 he was made an honorary advocate of the Ulster Arts Club, Belfast. He kept in be next to with his sister Ethel Slator in Belfast and visited her and his friends. He returned from London to Dublin in 1941 and, apart from an occasional journey abroad, remained there until his death (1950).
In the Ulster Museum is a portrait of Forrest Reid. The Armagh County Museum and the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, have self-portraits. In 1951 a memorial exhibition at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin was opened by Ulster playwright, Rutherford Mayne.
Ruth Devine, ‘Sleator, James Samuel (Sinton)’, Dictionary of Irish Biography https://www.dib.ie/biography/sleator-james-samuel-sinton-a8120
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