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William Kennedy, 1860-1918

Nationality: Scottish
Date of Birth: 1860.08.01 or 1859.07.17
Place of Birth: Hutchesontown, Glasgow
Date of Death: 1918.12.11
Place of Death: Tangiers, Morocco

Identity:

William Kennedy was a Glasgow landscape, animal and military painter.

Life:

Kennedy studied in Paris from 1880 to 1885. In Britain he exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, New English Art Club, Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

Kennedy was among those Glasgow painters who in 1891 appended their names to a list requesting that the Corporation of Glasgow buy Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137) (#12326).

Bibliography:

Bénézit, E., Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 8 vols, Paris, 1956-61; Johnson, J., and A. Gruetzner, Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, Woodbridge, 1980; McEwan, Peter J. M., Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture, Woodbridge, 1994.