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Painter, mainly in oil, born in Coventry where he continued to live, son of the watercolourist James Everett Kessell. Studied at Coventry School of Art, 1928–34 and 1945–52. Exhibited RA, NS, ROI, RBA and RSMA. Towards the end of his life he ran his own art school. Kessell, who also showed abroad, had a series of one-man shows, including Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, and Coventry Cathedral, in 1973. He painted portraits of a number of senior figures in the Anglican church. Herbert Art Gallery holds his works One up for the Sky Blues and Cardiff Docks.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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