Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, RSA (1808–1889) was a Scottish painter.
Life
Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, born in 1808, perhaps at Edinburgh, was a pupil of John Thomson of Duddingston. On the foundation of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1826 Kidd was elected one of the original associates, and became a full academician in 1829.[1]
He practised painting at Edinburgh until about 1836, when he moved to London, resigning his membership of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1838. He then settled as a teacher of drawing at Greenwich, where he resided until his death in May 1889, at the age of eighty-one.[1] He was survived by at least one son.[2]
Identity
He is sometimes confused with his near contemporary, the painter William Kidd, and some sources erroneously refer to him as John rather than Joseph.[2]
Works
Kidd chiefly painted the scenery of his native country, and executed a few etchings of highland views. Some of his pictures were engraved.[1] In the 1830s, he was commissioned to copy a number of paintings of birds by the American artist and naturalist, John James Audubon.[3] He illustrated Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's The Miscellany of Natural History (1833–4) and West Indian Scenery (1838–40).[2] Not long before his death he painted a portrait of Queen Victoria for the Royal Hospital schools in Greenwich.[1]
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Tam's Wife Awaiting Him with Grim Expression -
Witches Dancing in Alloway Auld Kirk -
On Horseback, Galloping away from Alloway Kirk
References
Sources
- Cust, Lionel Henry (1892). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 92.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011). "Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew". In Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press.
- Stuchtey, Henriette (2021). "Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew". In Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; and Tegethoff, Wolf (eds.). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank. De Gruyter.
- Weeks, Emily M. (2004). "Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew (1808–1889), painter". In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
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