Edward Kennion

Edward Kennion, F.S.A. (1744–1809), a landscape painter from Liverpool, was an Independent. His uncle was the nonconformist minister at Toxteth Park, Liverpool. In 1784 he published Antiquities of the Counties of Hereford and Monmouth, and moved to London in 1789 to become a teacher and artist. He became a fellow to the Society of Artists in 1790, exhibiting numerous works at its exhibitions, as well as at the Royal Academy. At his death in 1809, he was working on a major work, Elements of Landscape and Picturesque Beauty. Only one essay was published, however, after his death, An Essay on Trees in Landscape, in 1815. His son, Charles John Kennion (1789–1853), was also a landscape painter, exhibiting twenty-six works at the Royal Academy between 1804 and 1853.  See his entry in ODNB.