Joseph Bartholomew Kidd

Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, (1808–1889) was a Scottish painter.

Life

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. He was survived by at least one son.

Identity He is sometimes confused with his near contemporary, the painter William Kidd, and some sources erroneously refer to him as John rather than Joseph. He illustrated Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's The Miscellany of Natural History (1833–4) and West Indian Scenery (1838–40). Not long before his death he painted a portrait of Queen Victoria for the Royal Hospital schools in Greenwich.