Artist: William Kent (1685 - 1748)
Nationality: English
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Media: Architecture, Design, Painting
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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William Rimmer, American (born in England), 1816-1879 Mrs. Robert Restiaux Kent (Eliza F. Watson) about
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Pembury Mill, Kent, 1808
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William Kent, Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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Samuel Lancaster Gerry, American, 1813-1891 John Oscar Kent and His Sister, Sarah Eliza Kent 1844
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William Kent, The Pin and the Needle, plate for Fable XVI on page 61 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Two Monkeys, plate for Fable XL on page 150 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Court of Death, plate for FableXLVII on page 178 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Miser and Plutus, plate for Fable VI on page 21 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Poet and the Rose, plate for Fable XLV on page 171 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Jugglers, plate for Fable XLII on page 158 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Elephant and the Bookseller, plate for Fable X on page36 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Lion, the Tiger, and the Traveler, plate for Fable I on page 1 in the book, Fables (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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Rockwell Kent, The End, 1927
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Rockwell Kent, Almost, 1929
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Rockwell Kent, And How Where?, 1936
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William Kent, The Courtier and Proteus, plate for Fable XXXIII on page 125 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Painter Who Pleased Nobody and Everybody, plate for Fable XVIII on page 68 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Unversal Apparition, plate for Fable XXXI on page 117 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus, plate for Fable XII on page 45 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Butterfly and the Snail, plate for Fable XXIV on page 92 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud, plate for Fable XXVIII on page 107 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Lady and the Wasp, plate for Fable VIII on page 29 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, Pythagoras and the Countryman, plate for Fable XXXVI on page 136 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Father and Jupiter, plate for Fable XXXIX on page 146 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Two Owls and the Sparrow, plate for Fable XXXII on page 122 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Sick Man and the Angel, plate for Fable XXVII on page 103 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy, plate for Fable III on page11 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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William Kent, The Shepherd and the Philosopher, plate for the Introduction to the Fables on first introductory page in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729), 1729
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Rockwell Kent, Revisitation, 1928
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Rockwell Kent, Foreboding, 1926
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Rockwell Kent, Convalescent, 1920
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Rockwell Kent, Twilight of Man, 1926
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Rockwell Kent, Pasture Gate, 1928
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William Finden, Dover, Kent, plate opposite page 153 of volume 1 in the book The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot by W.H. Bartlett; with Descriptions by William Beattie, M.D. (Lond
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Rockwell Kent, And Women Must Weep, 1937
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Rockwell Kent, Portrait of T. M. Cleland, 1929
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Richard Hamilton, Kent State, 1970
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Unidentified artist, Italian (Roman), 17th century Poppies in a Wine Flask Oil on canvas 65.1
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Samuel Prout, Waterfall in Kent, 19th century
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Rockwell Kent, Self-Portrait, 19th - 20th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Ashford Library Gallery: Exhibition of work by Mary Chaplin, Liz Garnett, Donna Hawkes-Baines and Marion Lynn
The artists, Mary Chaplin, Liz Garnett, Donna Hawkes-Baines and Marion Lynn, met at college and have remained firm friends. This is the first time they have worked together on a project and Liz Garnett the project co-ordinator says it has b...
Portland Museum of Art: Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern
One of the great painters of his day, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) made innovations that reverberated through American culture in the first half of the 20th century. He rose to prominence between the world wars as a painter of extraordinary power who...
Tiger Inn: Colours by Salon 67
David Bebbington's objective is to produce 21st century images in the tradition of abstract photography begun by Edward Weston. His work in this exhibition relates to this and in particular his interest with regard to landscape work and in the i...
Art Space Gallery: George Rowlett: Prime Elements
Working directly from the subject, the surface of his canvases are built up often with extraordinary speed to a rich and succulent impasto where colour and surface combine to convey atmosphere, light and mass. Rowlett delights in the properties...
Danish Architecture Center : Futures to Come: Architecture, Building, and Business
Fewer blind spots in the building process The new 3D real-time technology offers the industry a visual tool that can be used by all parties involved in the building process because it makes it possible to literally 'step right into' an archite...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: THE DARKER SIDE OF PLAYLAND: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection
While many of the images in the exhibition are normally associated with childhood happiness, others implicate issues of violence in society and cultural identity. Artists represented in the exhibition include David Levinthal, Lau...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: SUPERNOVA: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection
The exhibition takes its title from Takashi Murakami’s tour de force painting Super Nova, 1999, which depicts “the destruction of an earthly terrain by atomic weapons whose mushroom clouds are rendered in ravishingly colorful detail,” according to...
Blue Caterpillar Art Gallery: Wendy Mills
Wendy Mills was named "Top Seller in 2004" at one of South Africa's largest art shows, which confirms her reputation as one of the regions top artists. Her work is displayed in galleries in the UK, Zimbabwe and South Africa and in private homes ar...
San Francisco Art Institute: Connie Samaras: 2002 Adaline Kent Award Exhibition, Angelic States - Event Sequence

Biggs Museum of American Art: Sitting Pretty: Chairs in 18th Century Delaware
Chairs are taken for granted today, but that was not the case in Colonial America. One historian notes that In the mid-1700's, between 65 and 68 per cent of inventories list chairs in Delaware's Kent and New Castle Counties, as wcl1 as in neighbou...
King County Public Art Program: Call for Digital Media Artists Living in King County, WA
Artist Fee: $5000
Deadline for Entry: 4:30 p.m. on Monday, July 9, 2001 Who Should ApplyNULL We are looking for emerging and established professional artists interested in: - collaborating with young artists to create ...
Frye Art Museum: Scenes of American Life
Scenes of American Life is one of eight exhibitions in Treasures to Go, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, touring the nation through 2002, while the museum is undergoing a major renovation. The Frye is one of the fortunate sites select...
Muse 269 Gallery: Charlie Warde: A Solo Show of Paintings and Drawings
The paintings exhibited are worked in traditional medium of oil on canvas and his subject matter is of recent landscapes painted in North England at his fathers farm in Kent. Concerned with all aspects of colour and design, he attempts to ‘bend th...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens: Benjamin Bricknell Turner
Known for his beautiful early photographs of rural England, Turner was one of the first, and remains one of the most respected, of all British photographers. Between 1852 and 1854 he compiled 60 of his photographs under the title Photographic Vi...
Chatham Cultural Centre, Thames Art Gallery: Dehuman: Works by Daniel Erban, Dennis Jones, Ed Pien and Balint Zsako
The exhibition is travelling to Gallery Lambton in Sarnia and to WKP Kennedy Gallery in North Bay. Dennis Jones states, "Most of my work explores aspects of vanity. The current series plays with our desire to accumulate recognition and appr...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: Margaret Morton: The Tunnel
Residents dwell in continual darkness, constructing homes of cinder-block bunkers and freestanding hand-made structures in alcoves and on ledges. With sensitivity and compassion, Margaret Morton has chronicled the lives and living spaces of the tu...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Sam Durant: MATRIX 147
Recent works have referred to the four deaths at the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont in 1969; a Robert Smithson earthwork created on the Kent State University Campus in 1970, a few months before four students, protesting the war in Cambodia, we...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland: Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson: Energy Forms
For her large scale weavings, Jónsson's process begins with the unique translation of a photograph into a loose abstract sketch known as a cartoon. She places this image beneath sets of separately strung warp and weft threads and subsequently pain...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Alan Reynolds: 50 Years after the Royal College of Art
A quest for structure and equilibrium has always been at the heart of Reynolds' work. His engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by Constable and Samuel Palmer ...
Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea: Over One Hundred absolutearts.com Artists to Participate in the Fourth Edition of the Florence Biennale
Internationally renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude will present a projection on their work at the 5th Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art on Thursday, December 8, 2005, at 5pm. At the conclusion of the presentation, Pasqual...
Tate Britian: Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean trained as a painter and now works in a variety of media, including drawing, photography and sound, but is best known for her 16mm films, of which she has made seventeen to date. The specific qualities associated with film making are o...
Frye Art Museum: The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing
The scope of subject matter extends from nudes to narrative, while styles range from spontaneous to painstaking renderings. The wide range of movements, linear rhythms, and points of view depicted with technical virtuosity and extraordinary draugh...
Institute for Cinema and Culture: Thaw 00
Why ThawNULL The name was chosen for its implications of emergence, movement, transition and change. Appropriately, the festival occurs at the tim...
NSA Gallery: BODIES OF RESISTANCE:

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Witness: Darren Almond, Brenda L. Croft, Zhang Huan, Whitfield Lovell, Walid Ra’ad/The Atlas Group, Fiona Tan
Renowned for his innovative use of video technology young British artist Darren Almond presents Oswiecim (1997), a black and white film work about history, loss and the passing of time. Australian Indigenous artist, curator, lecturer and freelance...
Portland Museum of Art: North and South: Berenice Abbott's U.S. Route 1
What is interesting about this show is that it is a complete body of work in a concentrated time, said Aprile Gallant, Curator of Prints, Drawing, & Photographs. Abbott works to preserve sites that are specifically 1954, rather than documenting t...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Gary Hume
Described by art critic Richard Cork as “one of the most adroit, inspiring and resourceful painters around”, Hume first came to public attention as a result of his participation in the seminal Freeze show in 1988, which featured artists such as ...
William Traver Gallery - Tacoma: Shift: Charlotte Meyer and Maria Phillips
The main element in Shift is a large piece titled “Internal Diversions”, made of glass, steel and silver.  This meticulous hanging sculpture symbolizes both organic systems and physical ornamentation.  The viewer is reflected in its many mirrored ...
Virginia Historical Society: The Virginia Landscape
More than 240 landscape paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs, dating from the colonial period to the present, reveal much about Virginia's natural history and the attitudes of its citizens. Initially, the commonwealth was best know...
Plug In: TROUBLES: Tensions Evident Beneath Surface of Northern Irish Images
As well as making 'straight' photographs of considerable poise, Sloan scores and scratches his negatives and reworks his prints with gouache or crayon. He is best known for his images (measuring between four and six feet wide) of the Or...

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