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JOSEPH MILNER KITE (1862-1946)

"THE FISH POND"

Signed, oil on canvas

Joesph Milner Kite was a painter who specialised in landscapes and interiors. He was born in Taunton, Devon in 1862, the son of a chemist. Kite moved to London in 1881, then to Antwerp, where he was a student at the Academie Royale 1881-83. He spent four seasons in the 'Antiek' class. In 1883 he moved to Paris, studying at the Academie Julian in the atelier of Bouguereau and Laurens where he met, and became a friend of, Sir John Lavery.

Kite made painting excursions to Normandy and Pont-Aven in 1886, Grez-sur-Loing in 1889, and lived in Tangiers 1887-89. In 1889 Kite settled permanently in Paris, living in Montparnasse for several years. During the late eighties, he exhibited in England, and at the Paris Salon, and was an exhibitor in the nineties.

Exhibitions: He exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA, the Salon National and the Salon in Paris.

Literature: Bénézit

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