William Henry Kearney

William Henry Kearney, RI (c. 1800–1858) was an English water-colour painter of landscapes and figure subjects.

[1] William Henry Kearney, born in 1800 or 1801, was probably the child of that name, son of John and Eleanor Kerney, who was baptised at St Mary's, Rotherhithe, London, on 3 May 1801.

He was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools on 18 November 1823 at the age of twenty-two.

[2][3] Kearney died at his at his home, 114 High Holborn, London, on 25 June 1858, aged fifty-seven.

[2] Among his works were Love's Young Dream, Ruins of the Sally-port, Framlingham (now in the National Gallery of Ireland), and The Courtship of Quintin Matsys, and The Fatal Picture.