St. George's Gallery

This gallery was a significant mid-20th-century art institution located in Mayfair that served as a critical hub for contemporary British and continental art, particularly for artists and dealers who had fled Nazi-occupied Europe. The gallery was initially located at 32a George Street, Hanover Square and its first Director was Arthur Rowland Howell (1881–1956), who showcased artists such as Frances Hodgkins and David Jones. Following the death of her husband, sculptor Alexander Sándor Járay (1870-1943), the Austrian-Jewish art dealer Lea Bondi Jaray (1880-1969) took over the gallery in 1943, located then at 81 Grosvenor Street. Under Bondi Jaray's leadership, the gallery became a social hub for German-speaking artists and dealers in exile. Her staff for a time included art dealers such as Erica Brausen (who later founded the Hanover Gallery) and Harry Fischer (co-founder of Marlborough Fine Art).

A major exhibition staged in 1947 titled "The New Generation" featured emerging talents like Lucian Freud, John Craxton, and William Scott. The gallery frequently promoted women artists, including multiple shows for the New Zealand painter Frances Hodgkins and a double exhibition for Mary Swanzy and Mary Krishna in 1947. The gallery officially closed in 1950. Its final major event was a group exhibition of Austrian Expressionist painters, held in collaboration with the Albertina Museum in Vienna.

After the primary gallery closed, Bondi Jaray's daughter Agathe Sadler (1924-2015) continued to run an antiquarian art bookshop under the St. George's name from rooms in the gallery. This business eventually moved to Duke Street, St James's, where Robert Erskine also ran a print gallery attached to the bookshop. The bookshop remained active until approximately 2000.