Regency Portraits Catalogue

James Kenney (1780-1849), Dramatist

Playwright and author of Raising the Wind, 1803, False Alarms, 1807 and many other successful farces; he married Thomas Holcroft's widow.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.