Sea Views, New York Museum; Noon on the Seashore (engraved by S. V. Hunt); Bashbish; Lake Conesus (Robert Hoe, New York), Coast of Massachusetts (S. Gandy, ib.), Glimpse of the White Mountains (1867); New Hampshire Scenery, Century Club, New York; Afternoon on the Connecticut Shore, John Taylor Johnston sale, ib., 1877; Lake George, Morris K. Jesup, ib.; Narragansett; From the Meadows at Cold Spring; Bass Rock—Newport; Italian Lake, J. W. Drexel, New York; Landscape, R. L. Kennedy, ib.; On the Thames, J. W. McCoy, Baltimore; Sunset, C. C. Perkins, Boston.
KENT, WILLIAM, born in Yorkshire in
1685, died in London, April 12, 1748. Portrait
and decoration painter; went about
1704 to London, and in 1710 to Rome,
where he gained a second-class medal.
After a second journey to Rome he settled
in London, under the patronage of Lord
Burlington. He decorated Wanstead House,
Rainham, and painted several ceilings for
Sir Robert Walpole at Hampton, but is best
known as the architect of Devonshire House,
Piccadilly; the Earl of Yarborough's house,
Arlington Street; the Horse Guards, Whitehall,
and other buildings. He was a weak
man and was caricatured by Hogarth, but
had considerable influence on the taste of
his day and held the appointment of master
carpenter, architect, keeper of the pictures,
and principal painter to the Crown. In
Hampton Court Palace are pictures by him
of the Interview and Marriage of Henry V.
and Princess Catherine.—Redgrave; F. de
Conches, 90.
KERCKHOVE, JOSEPH VAN DEN,
born in Bruges, May 4, 1667, died there,
Aug. 8, 1724. Flemish school; history and
portrait painter, pupil at Bruges of Jan van
Meunincxhove, then at Antwerp of Jan Erasmus
Quellin. Perfected himself on a journey
through France, lived for some time in
Paris, and on his return founded with Duvenede
the Bruges Academy, of which he was
appointed the first professor. Painted for
churches and public buildings many historical
pictures, distinguished for good composition
and colouring and knowledge of architecture
and perspective. Works: Assembly
of the Gods, Town Hall, Bruges; St. Catherine
of Siena (1716), Academy, ib.—Immerzeel,
ii. 102; Nagler, vi. 559; Weale,
Cat., 90.
KERKHOVE, FRITZ VAN DE, born at
Bruges in Oct., 1862, died there, Aug. 12,
1873. Landscape painter. This phenomenal
child began to paint, at the age of
seven, landscapes on a diminutive scale, of
which about 350 were exhibited in the great
cities of Europe, calling forth a protracted
controversy among the art-critics as to their
authenticity.—Siret, L'enfant de Bruges
(Paris, 1876).
KERN, ANTON, born at Tetschen, Bohemia,
in 1710, died in Dresden, June 8,
1747. German school; history painter,
pupil in Dresden of Rossi, then for seven
years in Venice of Pittoni; returned to Dresden
a finished artist, went to Rome in 1738,
and was made court-painter to Augustus III.
in 1741. Works: St. John Nepomuk, St.
Joseph, St. Barbara, Trinity, St. John Evangelist,
all in churches near Tetschen; St.
Apollonia; St. Barbara; St. Augustin, Abbey
of Strahow, Prague; Adoration of the
Magi, Circumcision, Mary the Virgin at the
Cradle, St. Magdalen, Holy Family, Christ
in the Temple, Czernin Gallery; Trinity,
Prague Gallery; St. Hubert; Alexander
and Diogenes; Rachel and Jacob; Rebecca
and Eleazar; Fair Flower Girl; Four Seasons;
St. Sebastian Dying, Darmstadt Museum;
Massacre of Innocents, Dresden Gallery.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xv. 630; Wurzbach,
xi. 184.
KERRICX, WILLEM IGNATIUS, born
in Antwerp, baptized April 22, 1682, died
there, buried Jan. 7, 1745. Flemish school;
history painter, son of the sculptor Willem
Kerricx, and pupil of Godefroid Maes, the
younger. He became master of the guild
in 1703, and painted several excellent altar-*pieces.
Was also a sculptor, architect, and
