Artist: Tilly Kettle (1734 - 1786)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Tilly Kettle first worked in the Midlands and London before making a long journey to India. He remained there from 1769 to 1776 and painted the portraits of the Indian high society and royalty. On his return to England, he found his painting style was not as well received in his native country. Kettle died at Aleppo while returning to India.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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CHOUDJA-A-ED-DOULAH ET SON FILS MYRZA-MANI (1772) by KETTLE Tilly
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Mihr Chand Portrait of Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula, after a portrait by Tilly Kettle, and Two Pictures of Beauty, a page from the Lady Coote Album Ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and gold on paper mounted on an album page with elaborately ornamented bord
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Tea Kettle on Stand, William Gale and Son  (Artist), 1850, Silver
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John Frederick Peto - The Olde Kettle c. 1890's oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Luis Melendez - Still Life with Fish, Bread, and Kettle c. 1772 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Bakewell, Pears & Co. Kettle stand wood 19th century
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Luis Egidio Melendez - Still Life with Grapes, Figs, and a Copper Kettle c. 1770-80 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art Spanish
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Tea-kettle on Stand, Szandrik Works  (Manufactured by), circa 1907, Metal
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Satirical Beaker
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Tea Kettle on Tripod Table-Stand, 18th century (1724-25) Simon Pantin I (act. 1699 - d.
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Dirk van Erp Kettle, stand and burner silver circa 1925
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Tea Kettle, Mitsuhiro (after) (Japan, died N/A) , late 19th century, Ebony, ivory inlays
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Mabel A. Royds Magnolias Color woodcut 19th - 20th century
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Mabel A. Royds Dandelions Color woodcut 19th - 20th century
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Mabel A. Royds Ducks Color woodcut 19th - 20th century
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Georges Item Boats Color lithograph 20th century
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Peter Carl FabergÈ Kettle with Spirit Lamp and Stand sterling silver 1896 - 1908
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Shreve & Co. Kettle with cover, stand and lamp sterling silver 1903 - 1917
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Mabel A. Royds Goat in a Stable Color woodcut 19th - 20th century
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Mabel A. Royds Goat-Herd Color woodcut 19th - 20th century
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Mabel A. Royds Four Indian Figures Color woodcut 19th - 20th century
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Allen William Seaby Hare in Winter Color woodcut ca. early 20th century
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Allen William Seaby Coast Landscape Color woodcut ca. early 20th century
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Hot Water Kettle on Stand with Burner, George K. Childs (England, 1795 - 1875) , circa 1825-1850, Silver
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Pieter de Jode I Portrait of Jean de Tzerclas, Comte de Tilly, et de Marbois Engraving 16th - 17th century
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Kitagawa Utamaro [Woman with winecap, girl with kettle] color woodcut 1800 - 1805
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Kettle with Pine Design and Lion-Head Handles, Kiyokatsu (Japan, died N/A)  (Artist), early 19th century, Ivory with staining, sumi
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Lucas Vorsterman the Elder Jean Conte De Tilly... 16th - 17th century
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Geisha Drinking from Sake Kettle at 2:00 a.m., Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japan, 1839 - 1892) , 1880, 10th month, Color woodblock print
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Mitsuhiro Ohara, 1810-1875 The Tanuki Kettle Netsuke Japanese Meiji era, mid-late 19th century Japan, Osaka
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The kettle, Ernst Barlach (Germany, Wedel, Holstein, 1870 - 1938) , 1922, Woodcut on japan paper
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Kettle and Stand with Burner, William Arthur Smith Benson (England, 1854 - 1924) , circa 1899, Silver-plated copper, brass
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Seven-Piece Tea and Coffee Service (Kettle), Black, Starr and Frost (United States, New York, New York City, born 1876) , circa 1885, Silver
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The kettle, Ernst Barlach (Germany, Wedel, Holstein, 1870 - 1938) , 1922, Woodcut on J. W. Zanders laid paper
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Designed by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834-1904 Manufactured by Benham and Froud Co. Kettle and stand
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Charters, Cann & Dunn, 1848-1856 Thomas Charters, Jr., 1848-1859 John Cann, 1848-1867 Kettle on stand
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Utamaro II [Ebisu and Daikoku performing a manzai dance for a young woman with a wine kettle] color woodcut 1806 - 1810
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Tea kettle United States, New York, about 1720 Silver 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.) Buhler,
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French (active in Britain), 1891-1915 Man on a Jumping Horse about 1913 Pen
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French (active in Britain), 1891-1915 Abstract Cock about 1914 Graphite Sheet: 24.1 x
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French (active in Britain), 1891-1915 Two Figures about 1914 Black wash Sheet: 21.27
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French (active in Britain), 1891-1915 Figure (Study for or after "Red Steone Dancer")
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French (active in Britain), 1891-1915 Stranded barges at Chiswick about 1908-09 Pen, black
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French (active in Britain), 1891-1915 Mummy Head 1913-14 Black wash Sheet: 18.3 x
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French (active in Britain), 1891-1915 Two Figures, entwined about 1913 Graphite pencil Sheet:
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French (active in Britain), 1891-1915 Abstracted figures, upright about 1914 Graphite Sheet: 33.7
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French (active in Britain), 1891-1915 Horse and Cart with Two Riders about 1912
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Marked by IG Toy Kettle and Stand London, England England, (London), about 1730 Silver H.
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French (active in Britain), 1891-1915 Design (Study for "Doorknocker") 1913-14 Orange wash Sheet:
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Portrait d'Alexandre François Auguste de Grasse-Rouville, 1er du nom, Comte de Grasse, marquis de Tilly (1er quart 19e siècle) by anonyme
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Designed by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834-1904 Manufactured by Benham and Froud Co. Kettle and stand
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Designed by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834-1904 Manufactured by Benham and Froud Co. Kettle and stand
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Artist: George Washington Maher and Gorham Manufacturing Co. Title: Coffee and Tea Service Date: 1912
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Possibly by Unknown German, 19th century Tea kettle Germany (?), 19th century Hard-paste porcelain, silver
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Marked by David Clayton, free 1689 Toy Kettle Miniatures London, England England, (London), about 1720
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Marked by Henry Brind, free 1742 Kettle and Stand London, England England, (London), 1750-51 Silver
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Designed by Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834-1904 Manufactured by Benham and Froud Co. Kettle and stand
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Marked by Gabriel Sleath, 1674-1756 Kettle and Stand London, England England, (London), 1724-25 Silver, rattan,
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Tea kettle France, 1779 Hard-paste porcelain, silver gilt, and
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Marked by Gabriel Sleath, 1674-1756 Kettle and Stand London, England England, (London), 1728-29 Silver, rattan,

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (13)
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Kettle's Yard Gallery: Claude Heath: Kettle’s Yard and Christ’s College Artist Fellow 2002-2003
These experiments in drawing often serve as starting points for larger scale works, including paintings and wall-drawings, whose size offers new interpretations of the imagery. Such imagery may include the life-mask of his brother, Toby, a leap...
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: Particle Moves: Exhibitions and Performances in Sound Art
From rumbling fans to delicate feedback networks Osborn works with ensemble members (Daryl Buckley, Michael Hewes, Tim O'Dwyer and Ben Marks)  for these performances to create an immersive sound/performance environment using gadgets and ‘cheap’ te...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Lines of Enquiry: Thinking through Drawing
Exhibitors include physicists, geologists, architects, engineers, zoologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, geneticists, surgeons, historians, geographers, philosophers, and composers, as well as artists. Among this feast of drawings are:
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Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: The World, Abridged: Oliver Bancroft, Mark Edwards, Ryan Gander, Sally Osborn, Lucy Skaer
Mark Edwards’ rich colour photographs are born out of a prolonged engagement with neglected and overlooked landscapes close to home, while oriental iconography and mass-reproduced images are some of the disparate sources that Lucy Skaer uses to we...
Tatar Gallery: Susan Dobson: Open House
Open House, the culmination of this concept, offers us a peak into the interiors of these seemingly identical suburban dwellings, as well as an insight into the minds of the inhabitants. In Open House, the occupants are as conspicuously presen...
Kettle's Yard Gallery: Enrico Castellani Work from 1958 – 1970
In 1959, Castellani produced the first of his structured surfaces by putting nuts behind the canvas to form reliefs in order to emphasise the physicality of the surface as well as the dynamism of space. He went on to develop the technique that ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Fred Sandback: Sculptures and Drawings
Distinctively, Sandback developed a way of working that dispensed with the mass and weight of materials, and ultimately used acrylic yarn, sometimes multi-coloured, stretched across architectural space. He made sculptures whose factual existen...
Kettle's Yard Gallery: A Measure of Reality: Dan Graham, Mona Hatoum, Lizzie Hughes, Richard Long, Robert Morris, Euan Uglow, Gary Woodley

Location, a wall piece by the American Robert Morris, literally records its own location in the gallery. His fellow minimalist, Dan Graham lists measurements from the edge of the known universe to the distance between his cornea and retinal ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Material Intelligence
Many of the artists use mass produced materials, and used or broken objects, from the cracked mirrors and black umbrella fabric used by Ian Kiaer in his new installation that draws together ideas about Kettle’s Yard and Wittgenstein’s notion of a ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Kettle's Yard Artist Fellowships: Marion Coutts and Claude Heath
Marion Coutts makes spell-binding transformations of the ordinary. At Kettle's Yard she is showing a new series of sculptures - charged, laconic pieces, evoking cosmic and economic themes. Each work is austere in its presence but provisional in it...
Galerie Erna Hecey: Johan Grimonprez: but the Cups Never Grew to be Kettles, special guests Roy Villevoye and Jan Dietvorst
Kobarweng... is the fruit of Grimonprez's graduate studies in cultural anthropology, during which he spent time in Irian Jaya, the western part of Papua New Guinea. Puzzled by the question "Where is your helicopter?" which greeted him upon his arr...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Sue Pam -Grant: Simplicity Miss Petite Size 8mp
Andrea Vinassa continues, "This became the springboard for a new creative direction for the artist, who has distinguished herself as an actress, playwright, scriptwriter and director in theatre and television. "South Africans know and love h...
ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND: Exhibition Production Awards

Awards have been made to galleries, museums, visual arts organisations and individuals to support touring exhibitions within England. An increasing use of new technology by artists is challenging the conventions of the touring exhibition; where...

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