Tilly Kettle
(1735-1786) was a portrait painter and the first English painter to work in India. He was born in London, the son of a coach painter, in a family that had been members of the Brewers' Company of freemen for five generations. He studied drawing with William Shipley in the Strand and first entered professional portraiture in the 1750s. Kettle's first series of portraits appeared in the 1760s. His first surviving painting is a self-portrait from 1760, with his first exhibit at the Society of Artists in 1761. In 1762, he worked at restoring Robert Streater's ceiling fresco in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, and painted Francis Yarborough, a doctor of Brasenose College, Oxford in 1763. He painted many members of the family of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. In 1764-5, he was active in London and continued exhibiting at the Society of Artists. In 1768, Kettle sailed to India with the British East India Company, landing at Madras (now Chennai), where he remained for two years. There, he painted Lord Pigot and Muhammad Ali Kahn twice (once alone and once with five of his sons). He also painted non-portraits, including Dancing Girls (Blacks) in 1772 and a suttee scene in 1776 entitled, The ceremony of a gentoo woman taking leave of her relations and distributing her jewels prior to ascending the funeral pyre of her deceased husband. In 1770 Kettle painted a half-length portrait of 'Sir' Levett Hanson, a peripatetic writer on European knighthood and chivalry originally from Yorkshire. (The portrait is now in the collection of the Bury St Edmunds Manor House Museum.) Kettle moved on to Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1771 and painted Shuja ud-Daula and Dancing-Girl Holding the Stem of a Hookah. In 1775,he painted George Bogle, Warren Hastings' emissary to Tibet, in Tibetan dress, presenting a ceremonial white scarf to Lobsang Yeshe the 5th Panchen Lama.He also took an Indian mistress and had two daughters by her.
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Tilly Kettle Brownlow North (1741-1820), future bishop of Winchester oil painting


Brownlow North (1741-1820), future bishop of Winchester
1762-1763 Oil on canvas 76 X 63 cm (29.92 X 24.8 in) cjr
Painting ID::  74294 		Tilly Kettle
Brownlow North (1741-1820), future bishop of Winchester
1762-1763 Oil on canvas 76 X 63 cm (29.92 X 24.8 in) cjr
   
   
     
Tilly Kettle Portrait of Mrs Yates as Mandane in The Orphan of China oil painting


Portrait of Mrs Yates as Mandane in The Orphan of China
ca. 1765(1765) Oil on canvas cjr
Painting ID::  74727 		Tilly Kettle
Portrait of Mrs Yates as Mandane in The Orphan of China
ca. 1765(1765) Oil on canvas cjr
   
   
     
Tilly Kettle future bishop of Winchester oil painting


future bishop of Winchester
Date 1762-1763 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 76 ?? 63 cm (29.9 ?? 24.8 in) cyf
Painting ID::  75741 		Tilly Kettle
future bishop of Winchester
Date 1762-1763 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 76 ?? 63 cm (29.9 ?? 24.8 in) cyf
   
   
     
Tilly Kettle The Orphan of China oil painting


The Orphan of China
Title English: Portrait of Mrs Yates as Mandane in `The Orphan of China Date ca. 1765 cyf
Painting ID::  76248 		Tilly Kettle
The Orphan of China
Title English: Portrait of Mrs Yates as Mandane in `The Orphan of China Date ca. 1765 cyf
   
   
     
Tilly Kettle The Orphan of China oil painting


The Orphan of China
ca. 1765(1765) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
Painting ID::  79234 		Tilly Kettle
The Orphan of China
ca. 1765(1765) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
   
   
     
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     (1735-1786) was a portrait painter and the first English painter to work in India. He was born in London, the son of a coach painter, in a family that had been members of the Brewers' Company of freemen for five generations. He studied drawing with William Shipley in the Strand and first entered professional portraiture in the 1750s. Kettle's first series of portraits appeared in the 1760s. His first surviving painting is a self-portrait from 1760, with his first exhibit at the Society of Artists in 1761. In 1762, he worked at restoring Robert Streater's ceiling fresco in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, and painted Francis Yarborough, a doctor of Brasenose College, Oxford in 1763. He painted many members of the family of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. In 1764-5, he was active in London and continued exhibiting at the Society of Artists. In 1768, Kettle sailed to India with the British East India Company, landing at Madras (now Chennai), where he remained for two years. There, he painted Lord Pigot and Muhammad Ali Kahn twice (once alone and once with five of his sons). He also painted non-portraits, including Dancing Girls (Blacks) in 1772 and a suttee scene in 1776 entitled, The ceremony of a gentoo woman taking leave of her relations and distributing her jewels prior to ascending the funeral pyre of her deceased husband. In 1770 Kettle painted a half-length portrait of 'Sir' Levett Hanson, a peripatetic writer on European knighthood and chivalry originally from Yorkshire. (The portrait is now in the collection of the Bury St Edmunds Manor House Museum.) Kettle moved on to Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1771 and painted Shuja ud-Daula and Dancing-Girl Holding the Stem of a Hookah. In 1775,he painted George Bogle, Warren Hastings' emissary to Tibet, in Tibetan dress, presenting a ceremonial white scarf to Lobsang Yeshe the 5th Panchen Lama.He also took an Indian mistress and had two daughters by her.

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