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John Dalziel Kenworthy
John Dalzell Kenworthy ARCA (1858-1954) original oil painting GARDENER PORTRAIT

1945

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ARTIST: John Dalzell Kenworthy ARCA (1958-1954) British TITLE: "The Head Gardener" SIGNED: lower right corner MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 52cm x 41cm inc frame DETAIL: A most interesting unuusal and characterful mid Century portrait of a man mowing the lawn. The painting initialled lower right for Kenwrothy. John Dalzell Kenworthy ARCA (5 Nov 1858 - 4 Mar 1954) was an internationally acclaimed artist, sculptor and writer who was born at Whitehaven into a prominent West Cumbrian family. JD Kenworthy was a noted Cumberland artist, who lived at Seacroft House, St Bees, a coastal village south of Whitehaven. He painted both portraits and landscapes, in oil and watercolour in the 50 years centred on the turn of the twentieth century. He was an associate of the Royal Cambrian Academy (1914) and he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, as well as at galleries across Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool. He travelled to paint in Scotland and France, where he became particularly well known. He also was a keen angler, and wrote a book in 1933 called 'Fisherman's Philosophy', in which he discusses Scottish salmon and loch trout, and fishing on the French Mediterranean coast. Kenworthy's works are held in the public collections of the Beacon Museum and Helena Thompson Museum. JD Kenworthy's portraits include two of 1st World War veterans, AJ Wandless a Master Mariner and Whitehaven war hero Abraham Acton. He also painted portraits of other notable people, including the Mayor of Whitehaven, Reverend Rees Keene, Dr James Irving Lace,[6] Justices of the Peace James Gibson Dees and Alderman Joseph Braithwaite and one of the aero chocolate girls Rosina Bacharach née Grispo. He also painted his housekeeper Mrs Elizabeth Dixon and a local school girl Dorothy Shackley. Amongst his landscape paintings is a painting called the Potato Harvest and several Scottish landscape views including one of Loch Ederline, near Ford Argyll, which unsurprisingly has a good reputation for fishing.He was a Justice of the Peace (1919) and President of the West Cumberland Club and Whitehaven Art Club (1948).
  • Creator:
    John Dalziel Kenworthy (1858 - 1954, English, British)
  • Creation Year:
    1945
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 16.15 in (41 cm)Width: 20.48 in (52 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
  • Medium:
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Cirencester, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2325215960932

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