Editing Kew (section)

===Artists associated with Kew===
*[[Diana Armfield]] (born 1920) lives in Kew.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=Summer 2021 |author= Bethel, Claire|title=Interview with local artist, Diana Armfield |url=https://mcusercontent.com/ba3306019a38caf7ead351ce3/files/2151ecad-202b-20f6-8f47-f5766e6f7b3a/Kew_Newsletter_Summer_2021.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721114750/https://mcusercontent.com/ba3306019a38caf7ead351ce3/files/2151ecad-202b-20f6-8f47-f5766e6f7b3a/Kew_Newsletter_Summer_2021.pdf |archive-date=21 July 2021 |url-status=live |magazine=The Kew Society Newsletter |access-date=14 April 2025}}</ref><ref name= "Partnership">{{Cite web |author= Macpherson, Amy|date=14 December 2015 |title= Painting their life: Diana Armfield and Bernard Dunstan  |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/video-diana-armfield-bernard-dunstan |access-date=21 July 2021 |website=[[Royal Academy]]}}</ref>  She is known for landscapes, and has also painted portraits, literary subjects and still lifes. She has a particular interest in flower paintings, and is considered to owe much to the tradition of [[Walter Sickert]].<ref name="Armfield, Diana Maxwell">{{Cite web |title=Armfield, Diana Maxwell |url= https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00300157|work=[[Benezit Dictionary of Artists]]|publisher= Oxford Art Online |access-date=15 June 2023}}</ref><ref name="Buckman1">{{Cite book |last=Buckman |first=David |title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 |date=2006 |publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd. |isbn=0-953260-95X |page=44}}</ref>
*[[Margaret Backhouse (artist)|Margaret Backhouse]] (1818–1896) was a successful British portrait and [[genre painter]] during the 19th century who lived at Lichfield Villas.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Margaret Backhouse. Probate • England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858–1957 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7XZ7-S7W2 |website=Family Search}}</ref>
*[[Franz Bauer|Franz (later Francis) Bauer]] (1758–1840) was an Austrian [[microscopist]] and [[botanical artist]] who became the first botanical illustrator at Kew Gardens. By 1790 he had settled at Kew, where as well as making detailed paintings and drawings of flower dissections, often at microscopic level, he tutored [[Queen Charlotte]], her daughter [[Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom|Princess Elizabeth]] and [[William Jackson Hooker|William Hooker]] in the art of illustration, and often entertained friends and botanists at his home. He is buried at St Anne's,<ref name="Local history notes">{{Cite web |title=St Anne's Church, Kew Green |url=https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/6325/local_history_st_annes_kew.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803051334/http://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/6325/local_history_st_annes_kew.pdf |archive-date=2017-08-03 |url-status=live |access-date=8 October 2022 |website=Local History Notes |publisher=[[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]]}}</ref> next to Thomas Gainsborough.
* 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".<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.95</ref>
* [[Bernard Dunstan]]  (1920–2017) lived in Kew. He was an artist, teacher and author, best known for his studies of figures in interiors and landscapes. At the time of his death, he was the longest serving [[Royal Academician]].<ref name= "Partnership"/>
*[[George Engleheart]] (1750–1829), one of the greatest English painters of [[portrait miniatures]], was born in Kew.<ref name="Engleheart NT">{{Cite web |title=Penelope Blathwayt, Mrs Jeremiah Pierce Crane (1755–1810): George Engleheart (Kew 1750&nbsp;– Blackheath 1839) National Trust Inventory Number 453454 |url=http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/453454 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905043622/http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/453454 |archive-date=5 September 2014 |access-date=10 October 2017 |website=National Trust Collections |publisher=[[National Trust]]}}</ref>
* [[Walter Hood Fitch]] (1817–1892), [[botanical illustrator]], lived on Kew Green.<ref>1881 England Census. Class: ''RG11''; Piece: ''845''; Folio: ''111''; Page: ''3''; GSU roll: ''1341200''</ref>
*[[Thomas Gainsborough]] (1727–1788), who is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century,<ref>{{cite book |page=111 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u9Et3Te5KqgC&pg=PA111 |title=Masterworks of European Painting in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor
|author1=Nash, Steven A |author2=Federle Orr, Lynn |author3= Stewart, Marion C |publisher=Hudson Hills |year=1999|access-date = 8 February 2025|isbn=9781555951825 }}</ref> visited Kew many times, staying with 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.<ref name="Blomfield 1994, pp.43-45"/>
*[[Arthur Hughes (artist)|Arthur Hughes]] (1832–1915), [[Pre-Raphaelite]] painter, lived and died at Eastside House, 22 Kew Green.<ref name="Tate Hughes">{{Cite web |last=Riggs, Terry |date=November 1997 |title=Arthur Hughes: artist biography |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/arthur-hughes-283|access-date=12 December 2022 |publisher=[[Tate]]}}</ref> The site is marked by a [[blue plaque]].<ref name="EH Hughes">{{Cite web |title=Hughes, Arthur (1832-1915)  |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/arthur-hughes/|access-date=3 July 2023 |website=Visit Richmond |publisher=[[English Heritage]]}}</ref>
*[[Tom Keating]] (1917–1984), artist, [[Art restoration|art restorer]] and [[Art forgery|art forger]], lived in Kew from 1961 to 1967.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Norman |first=Geraldine |author-link = Geraldine Norman|date=10 August 1976 |title=Samuel Palmer imitator who duped art world |pages=1 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rais |first=Guy |date=16 January 1979 |title=Art fakes girl under spell of older painter |pages=9 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> He was best known for his highly-publicised crusade against the [[art world]],<ref>{{Cite news  |date=20 August 1976 |title=Mr. Keating says art imitations are protest |pages=1 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Norman |first=Geraldine |author-link = Geraldine Norman|date=27 August 1976 |title=Mr. Keating made 2000 pastiches |pages=1 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> his trial for art fraud at the [[Old Bailey]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-faker-s-moll-1077511.html| last=Sweet|first = Matthew|author-link = Matthew Sweet (writer)|date=31 January 1999 |access-date = 2 April 2023|title=The Faker's Moll |work=[[The Independent on Sunday]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news  |date=28 January 1979 |title=Court Portraits: The best free show in town |work=[[The Observer]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rais |first=Guy |date=2 February 1979 |title=Old masters' spirits took over, says Tom Keating |pages=3 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> and his critically acclaimed [[Channel 4]] television series ''Tom Keating On Painters.''<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 November 1982 |title=Today's television programmes – CHOICE: Tom Keating On Painters |pages=25 |work=[[The Times]] |editor-last=Davalle |editor-first=Peter}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Gosling |first=Kenneth |date=18 March 1983 |title=Channel 4 wins two awards |pages=5 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref>
*[[Joshua Kirby (artist)|Joshua Kirby]] (1716–1774) was a landscape painter, engraver, and writer, whose main artistic focus was "[[linear perspective]]", based on the ideas of English mathematician [[Brook Taylor]].<ref>See a short literary biography of Joshua Kirby in ''[[The Gentleman's Magazine]]'' (ed. [[John Nichols (printer)|John Nichols]]) Vol. 78, January 1808, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qWwdAQAAMAAJ&dq=Joshua+Kirby&pg=PA4 pp. 4–5].</ref> He was the son of topographer [[John Kirby (topographer)|John Kirby]], and the father of the writer [[Sarah Trimmer]] and the [[entomologist]] [[William Kirby (entomologist)|William Kirby]].<ref name="Kirby">{{Cite book |last=Freeman, John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fwA6AAAAcAAJ |title=Life of the Rev William Kirby MA |publisher=[[Longman]], Brown, Green & Longmans |year=1852 |location=London |access-date=11 July 2017}}</ref> In 1760 he moved to Kew, where he taught [[linear perspective]] to George III.<ref name="RKD">[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/44461 John Joshua Kirby] in the [[RKD]] (Netherlands Institute for Art History). Retrieved 24 December 2018.</ref> He was a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]].
*Sir [[Peter Lely]] (1618–1680), [[portrait painter]], had a house on the north side of Kew Green.<ref name="Lysons"/> 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.<ref name="Blomfield 1994, pp.43-45"/>
*[[Charles Mozley]] (1914–1991), artist and art teacher, lived and died at 358 Kew Road, Kew.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charles Mozley&nbsp;– details |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=113735 |access-date=23 May 2016 |website=The Collection |publisher=[[British Museum]]}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|num=1357700|desc=356 and 358 Kew Road |date = 10 January 1950|access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref>
*Victorian artist [[Marianne North]] (1830–1890) 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&nbsp;– the [[Kew Gardens#Features|Marianne North Gallery]]&nbsp;– to house them.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.96</ref>
* French [[Impressionist]] painter [[Camille Pissarro]] (1830–1903) stayed in 1892 at 10 Kew Green, on the corner of Gloucester Road, now marked by a blue plaque.<ref name="Pissarro">{{Cite web |title=Camille Pissarro (1831–1903) French impressionist stayed here in 1892 |url=https://openplaques.org/plaques/9922|access-date=3 July 2023|website=Open Plaques}}</ref> During his stay he painted ''Kew Gardens&nbsp;– Path to the Great Glasshouse'' (1892)[https://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-pissarro/kew-gardens-path-to-the-great-glasshouse-1892], ''Kew Greens'' (1892)[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pissarro-Kew-greens-Lyon.jpg] and ''Church at Kew'' (1892)[http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/camille-pissarro/church-at-kew-1892]. His third son, [[Félix Pissarro]] (1874–1897), painter, [[etcher]] and [[caricaturist]], died in a [[sanatorium]] at 262 Kew Road in 1897.<ref name="Pissarro West London 46">{{Cite book |last=Reed, Nicholas |title=Pissarro in West London (Kew, Chiswick and Richmond) |publisher=Lilburne Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-1-901167-02-3 |edition=Fourth |page=46}}</ref>
*[[Charles Haslewood Shannon|Charles Shannon]] (1863–1937), artist best known for his portraits, died in Kew<ref name="Annex">{{Cite web |title=Charles Haslewood Shannon Biography |url=https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/2158/Shannon/Charles |access-date=29 November 2022 |website=The Annex Galleries}}</ref> at 21 Kew Gardens Road.
*[[Matilda Smith]] (1854–1926), the first official [[botanical artist]] of the [[Kew Gardens|Royal Botanic Gardens]], lived at Gloucester Road, Kew.<ref>Probate 1927</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1927|title=Matilda Smith, A.L.S.|url=https://issuu.com/kewguildjournal/docs/v4s34p455-all|journal=Journal of the Kew Guild. Annual Report, 1925–1926|volume=1927|pages=527–528|via=ISSUU|access-date=15 May 2021|archive-date=3 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230303204629/https://issuu.com/kewguildjournal/docs/v4s34p455-all|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*The painter [[Johan Zoffany]] (1725–1810), who lived at [[Strand-on-the-Green]], is buried in St Anne's churchyard.<ref>Blomfield 1994, p.45</ref>