Tilly Kettle

Place: London

Born: 1735

Death: 1786

Biography:

Tilly Kettle (1735–1786) was a portrait painter and the first prominent English portrait painter to operate in India. He was born in London, the son of a coach painter, in a family that had been members of the Brewers' Company of freemen for five generations. He studied drawing with William Shipley in the Strand and first entered professional portr...