Joseph Kirkpatrick

Joseph Kirkpatrick (1872–1936) was a British painter known for his watercolours, engravings and rare oil on canvas paintings of bucolic pastoral scenes.

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Joseph Kirkpatrick was born in Liverpool in 1872.

He studied at The Liverpool Institute and School of Art, the oldest art and design school in England outside London, under John Finnie. Kirkpatrick later studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier.

He lived in Liverpool at 41 Castle Street and moved to Curdridge, Botly, Hants in 1915 until staying with a friend in London in 1916 before then moving then to Chelsea in the same year. Kirkpatrick exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1898 and 1928 as well as at various other venues.

He lived in London for a number of years before moving to Wepham Hamlet near Burpham, Arundel in West Sussex in 1916.

Kirkpatrick who was a member of the Liver Sketching Club and the Liverpool Academy of Arts. He exhibited many works at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and at the RBSA, RA, RCamA and ROI. A painting by him is in the collection of Liverpool Bluecoat School^[1]. The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool holds two of his works.

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The Nursery Field with a view of St Mary the Virgin, Buxted, East Sussex. Kirkpatrick used to take the train from London to paint when he lived at 38 Redcliffe Rd, London SW10 9NJ

Most of his watercolor work portrays humble farming people at work and have a realist quality reminiscent of some of the French nineteenth century genre artists.

• The Gentle Art. Royal Academy Exhibition 1898^[2]
• Spring-time. Royal Academy Exhibition 1900
• Evening glow. Royal Academy Exhibition 1902
• The Marsham Gate Tangiere. Royal Academy Exhibition 1903
• The Storm Cloud. Royal Academy Exhibition 1915^[3]
• The Keep Porchester. Royal Academy Exhibition 1916
• Corfe Castle. Royal Academy Exhibition 1916
• Surrey pines. Royal Academy Exhibition 1916^[4]
• Springtime frightfulness. Royal Academy Exhibition 1917
• The Sheepfold. Royal Academy Exhibition 1917^[5]
• The White Muff. Royal Academy Exhibition 1918^[6]
• Harrowing the Uplands-aquatint. Royal Academy Exhibition 1928^[7]

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