James Kenney
10 of 40 portraits by Samuel Laurence
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Regency Portraits Catalogue
James Kenney
by Samuel Laurence
circa 1845
18 1/8 in. x 13 1/4 in. (460 mm x 337 mm)
NPG 4263
This portraitback to top
The drawing shows Kenney as an elderly man, probably in the late 1840s. Miss Newmarch also has an oval watercolour drawing showing him as a young man with a wry smile. The Garrick Club has a watercolour drawing possibly by De Wilde, engraved by Heath (1809), for Mrs Inchbald's Collection of Farces.
Provenanceback to top
The Sitter's daughter Virginia (m. the dealer William Cox); her Sister Sophie's son William Jeaffreson; his niece Elizabeth Newmarch who gave it to the NPG 1962.
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.