Joseph Bartholomew Kidd
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Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, RSA (1808–1889) was a Scottish painter.
Identity
Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, born in 1808, perhaps at Edinburgh, was a pupil of John Thomson of Duddingston. On the foundation of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1826 Kidd was elected one of the original associates, and became a full academician in 1829.[1]
He practised painting at Edinburgh until about 1836, when he moved to London, resigning his membership of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1838. He then settled as a teacher of drawing at Greenwich, where he resided until his death in May 1889, at the age of eighty-one.[1] He was survived by at least one son.[2]
He is sometimes confused with his near contemporary, the painter William Kidd, and some sources erroneously refer to him as John rather than Joseph.[2]
