340 - Joseph Milner Kite,

Joseph Milner Kite, British 1862-1945- Portrait of Jeanne Martin in profile, wearing a white shirt and a black hat; oil on canvas, bears label with inscription 'Portrait of / Jeanne Martin (CECILLE / SORELLE) / Summer of 1924. / J. Milner . Kite' (to the verso), signed 'J. Milner. Kite.' (lower right), 65 x 54 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: Milner Kite was born in Devon and studied fine arts in Antwerp and Paris, at the Académie Julian, training under William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) and other prominent painters of the time, such as Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902). He was close to the Cornwall artist colonies of St Ives and Newlyn, which greatly influenced his work and technique. He exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Paris Salon, and other venues. He travelled and worked, meeting and befriending fellow artists, such as Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), across Europe, Northern Africa, and America: in France, Spain, Morocco, and the United States, where he exhibited, along with other Cornish painters, at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1905. His works are held at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and other institutions.