Connecticut, Massachusetts. 1792 - 1884
Naive wall fresco-landscape, portrait
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1817 New Hampshire - 1871. Known for: Naive portrait painting.
William H. Kennedy was born in New Hampshire and worked as a portrait painter in New Bedford, Massachusetts; Ledyard, Connecticut; and Berwick, Maine from 1845 through 1847. He moved to Maryland in... Read full biography
William H. Kennedy was born in New Hampshire and worked as a portrait painter in New Bedford, Massachusetts; Ledyard, Connecticut; and Berwick, Maine from 1845 through 1847. He moved to Maryland in 1849 or 1850, living at various locations in Baltimore with his wife and three children until 1869.... Read full biography
William H. Kennedy was born in New Hampshire and worked as a portrait painter in New Bedford, Massachusetts; Ledyard, Connecticut; and Berwick, Maine from 1845 through 1847. He moved to Maryland in 1849 or 1850, living at various locations in Baltimore with his wife and three children until 1869. Kennedy is generally regarded as one of the folk painters of the Prior-Hamblin School, named for brothers-in-law William Matthew Prior (1806-1873) and Sturtevant J. Hamblen (active 1837-1856). No... Read full biography
William H. Kennedy was born in New Hampshire and worked as a portrait painter in New Bedford, Massachusetts; Ledyard, Connecticut; and Berwick, Maine from 1845 through 1847. He moved to Maryland in 1849 or 1850, living at various locations in Baltimore with his wife and three children until 1869. Kennedy is generally regarded as one of the folk painters of the Prior-Hamblin School, named for brothers-in-law William Matthew Prior (1806-1873) and Sturtevant J. Hamblen (active 1837-1856). No direct link to these artists has yet been found, although Kennedy worked in Massachusetts at the same time Prior and Hamblen did, and lived a few doors away from Prior in Baltimore in the late 1850s. Stylistically, Kennedy's crisp, flat likenesses... Read full biography
William H. Kennedy was born in New Hampshire and worked as a portrait painter in New Bedford, Massachusetts; Ledyard, Connecticut; and Berwick, Maine from 1845 through 1847. He moved to Maryland in 1849 or 1850, living at various locations in Baltimore with his wife and three children until 1869. Kennedy is generally regarded as one of the folk painters of the Prior-Hamblin School, named for brothers-in-law William Matthew Prior (1806-1873) and Sturtevant J. Hamblen (active 1837-1856). No direct link to these artists has yet been found, although Kennedy worked in Massachusetts at the same time Prior and Hamblen did, and lived a few doors away from Prior in Baltimore in the late 1850s. Stylistically, Kennedy's crisp, flat likenesses strongly resemble the Prior and Hamblen portraits. His work can be distinguished from theirs by his consistent portrayal of his sitters with ste... Read full biography
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Portraits of a Young Couple: a pair
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Portrait of a Sister and Brother Wearing Blue
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Connecticut. 1802 - 1874
Miniature watercolor profile portrait
Maine, Massachusetts. 1817 - 1884
Naive portrait, child figure painting
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana / Germany. 1763 - 1863
Naive portrait, figure, interiors
Illinois, Vermont. 1797 - 1868
Naive portrait often group and landscape painting
New Hampshire, Maine. 1811 - 1865
Naive portrait, landscape painting
Connecticut, Maine. 1766 - 1854
Naive adult and child portrait painting
Massachusetts, New York. 1805 - 1900
Portrait, allegory and history painting, architecture
Massachusetts, Maine. 1806 - 1873
Naive portrait-child, landscape
New York, Connecticut. 1788 - 1865
Naive portrait and figure painting
New York / England. 1808 - 1866/69
Naive landscape, marine and portrait painting
New York, New Brunswick / England, Canada. 1817 - 1892
Ship portrait, yacht races and history subject painting
Massachusetts. 1806 - 1889
Marine-ship, coastal views
New York, New Jersey / Denmark. 1850 - 1921
Ship portrait and other marine painting