The name Beaux Arts Quartet was given to a group of four young British painters whose works were exhibited at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London in the early 1950s. The Beaux Arts Gallery in London was run from 1951-1965 by the painter Helen Lessore (1907-1994), who established it as an important venue for contemporary realist painting. As part of the solo exhibitions held there, the four artists became known as the Beaux Arts Quartet, renamed the Kitchen Sink painters from December 1954, a term referring to their often sombre domestic pictorial subjects.
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