Joseph Kirkpatrick

British born.1872

Joseph Kirkpatrick was a landscape painter, watercolourist and engraver. He was born in Liverpool where he studied at the School Of Art under John Finnie. He also studied at the Academie Julian in Paris under Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier.

Kirkpatrick exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1898 and 1928 as well as at various other venues. The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool holds two of his works.

Some of his work portrays humble farming people at work and have an earthy quality reminiscent of some of the French nineteenth century genre artists.

He lived in London for a number of years before he moved to Arundel in Sussex in 1916.