Background
Otho was born in London to the wealthy lawyer Otho Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara Saint Clair, a governess known as Nellie.
Otho was born in London to the wealthy lawyer Otho Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara Saint Clair, a governess known as Nellie.
The couple had married the previous year despite the reservations of Lloyd"s family. Otho was educated in Switzerland and England and studied painting in the studios of André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse. Before World War I, he was active in Munich, where he lived off a substantial remittance from his mother.
Otho postponed a professional career until 1939, when he finally felt "fully prepared" to appear in public.
At his first exhibition, a two-person show held at the Perls Galleries in New York City, he exhibited eight paintings dating from the years between 1930 and 1938, including Les Toits de Paris (1930), Pont des Arts à Paris (1930), Paysage d"Espagne (1932), Vue de Tossa (1932), Vue de Mougins (1933), Les Oliviers du Cannet (1937), Paysage des Environs de Paris (1938), and Pont-Neuf à Paris (1938).
