Kew - Artists Associated With Kew

Artists Associated With Kew

• The American-born English artist Walter Deverell (1827–1854), who was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, lived at 352 Kew Road, then called Heathfield House. He had a studio at the end of the garden where there are now garages. In this setting he painted "The Pet"
• George Engleheart (1750–1829) who was born in Kew, was one of the greatest English painters of portrait miniatures. He is buried in St Anne's Church
• Thomas Gainsborough (1727- 1788) visited Kew many times, staying his friend Joshua Kirby and, after Kirby's death, in a house probably rented by his daughter close to St Anne's Church, where he is buried
• Arthur Hughes (1832 – 1915), Pre-Raphaelite painter, lived and died at Eastside House, 22 Kew Green, Kew. The site is marked by a blue plaque
• Sir Peter Lely (1618 – 1680), portrait painter, had a house on the north side of Kew Green. On almost exactly the same site, Jeremiah Meyer (1735-1789), miniaturist to Queen Charlotte and George III, built a house a century later. Meyer is buried at St Anne's
• Victorian artist Marianne North (1830-189)) did not live in Kew, but she left to Kew Gardens her collection of botanic art, painted on her extensive overseas travels, and funded a gallery – the Marianne North Gallery – to house them
• French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903) stayed in 1892 at 10 Kew Green, on the corner of Gloucester Road, which is marked by a blue plaque. During his stay he painted "Kew Gardens – Path to the Great Glasshouse (1892) and "Kew Greens" (1892)
• The painter Johann Zoffany (1725-1810), who lived at Strand-on-the-Green, is buried at St Anne's