William Kennedy (painter)

William Kennedy (17 July 1859 – 11 December 1918) was a Scottish painter associated with the Glasgow School.

William Kennedy was born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow on 17 July 1859,[1] and attended the Paisley School of Art.

In the early 1880s he moved to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian[2] and studied with artists such as Jules Bastien-Lepage, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Raphaël Collin, Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois, and Tony Robert-Fleury.

[4] Kennedy became a prominent member of a group of artists known as the Glasgow Boys.

[2] He moved to Berkshire in the 1890s,[3] and married fellow painter Lena Scott in 1898.