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Charles H. M. Kerr
Charles Henry Malcolm Kerr (22 January 1858 – 7 December 1907) (also known as C. H. M. Kerr or Charles Kerr) was a British portrait, genre, landscape painter and illustrator of the late Victorian era perhaps best known for his illustrations for the adventure novels of H. Rider Haggard.
==Career==
Born in London, one of six sons and two daughters of Robert Malcolm Kerr (1821–1902), a Judge of the City of London Court,〔(Kerr on the Glasgow Museums website )〕 and Maria Susannah Soley Kerr, Charles Kerr was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. On leaving Oxford he studied at the Royal Academy Schools and at the Académie Julian in Paris. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1884, including 'Wargrave Church', 'The Oldest Inhabitant', 'An Academy Picture' and numerous portraits.〔(Kerr on the European Art Gallery website )〕
Kerr also exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Society of British Artists and New English Art Club, as well as at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Manchester City Art Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. In 1890 he was elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Artists.〔(Kerr's Artist Biography on the Tate website )〕〔
He provided illustrations for books by H. Rider Haggard (''Allan Quatermain'' 1887; ''She: A History of Adventure'' 1888; ''Allan's Wife & Other Tales'' 1889; ''Nada the Lily'' 1892; ''The Witch's Head'' 1893; ''The Wizard'' 1896; ''Black Heart & White Heart & Other Stories'' 1900), Robert Louis Stevenson (''The Wrong Box'' 1899), Andrew Lang (editor) (''The True Story Book'' 1893) and Arthur Conan Doyle (the Sherlock Holmes story ''The Sign of the Four'' 1890).〔
Kerr was amongst those invited to a dinner on 1 May 1889 at the Criterion Restaurant to congratulate James Abbot McNeill Whistler on becoming an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.〔(Kerr on the ''Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler'' website )〕 He married Gertrude Lizzie Giles, who posed for his 1905 painting 'The Visitor', now in the collection of the Tate.〔('The Visitor' (1905) in the Tate Collection )〕
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