Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, RSA (1808–1889) was a Scottish painter.

Life

Red Tailed Hawk (c. 1831)

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]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Cust 1892, p. 92.
  2. 1 2 3 Weeks 2004. n.p.
  3. ↑ Oliver, ed. 2011. n.p.

Sources

  • Cust, Lionel Henry (1892). "Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 92. Public Domain 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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