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 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