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Tilly Kettle

1734 or 5–1786

Mrs Yates as Mandane in ‘The Orphan of China’ exhibited 1765
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Biography

Tilly Kettle (1735–1786) was a portrait painter and the first prominent English portrait painter to operate in India.

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Artworks

  • Young Man in a Fawn Coat

    Tilly Kettle
    c.1772–3
  • Mrs Yates as Mandane in ‘The Orphan of China’

    Tilly Kettle
    exhibited 1765
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