About this artwork
Jean Adam was the daughter of John Adam and niece of Robert Adam the celebrated Scottish architect. She married the Ayrshire advocate Thomas Kennedy in 1779. Although the couple separated in 1808, her portrait was apparently painted as a pair to that of her husband (also in the Gallery’s collection). Both portraits may have been commissioned by their son Thomas Francis Kennedy, a Whig politician and advocate and frequent patron of Raeburn.
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artist:Sir Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823) Scottish
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title:Jean Adam, Mrs Kennedy of Dunure
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date created:About 1811
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:127.00 x 101.90 cm; Framed: 152.20 x 126.50 x 9.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by Elspeth Tullis, Lady Invernairn of Strathnairn; received after her death 1956
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accession number:NG 2182
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gallery:
Sir Henry Raeburn
Sir Henry Raeburn
Originally apprenticed to a goldsmith, Henry Raeburn showed enormous artistic talent as a young man. In 1784 he moved to London where he met the important portrait painter Joshua Reynolds. He spent some time in Italy but returned to Edinburgh in 1787 where he began painting portraits of the rich,...
