National Portrait Society

Founded in 1911 by Sir Gerald Kelly along with Glyn Philpot, Ambrose McEvoy, Gerald Moira and Sir William Nicholson. Portrait sculptor members including Sir Jacob Epstein also exhibited along with painters Alvaro Guevara, Walter Sickert, Oswald Birley and Australian painter Kathleen Laetitia O'Connor (1876-1968). The Society’s main exhibition venue appears to have been the Grosvenor Gallery in London’s Bond Street until 1921 when it changed to the Grafton Galleries. Louis Ginnett was for a time President of this short-lived society that appears to have held only a few exhibitions, the last being possibly in 1921. It is sometimes referred to as the Modern Portrait Society.