Tilly Kettle, January 31, 1735 – July 1786, was an English portrait painter who worked in Britain and India. He trained at William Shipley’s drawing academy, St Martin’s Lane Academy, and the Duke of Richmond’s academy in London.
Kettle established himself as a portraitist in Oxford and the English Midlands before travelling to India in 1768. He worked in Madras, Calcutta, and at the court of Shuja al-Daula in Awadh, painting British East India Company officials and Indian rulers.
His works are held by the Yale Center for British Art, Tate Britain, National Portrait Gallery, National Army Museum, National Galleries of Scotland, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and other public collections.
Self-Portrait, 1762
Oil on canvas, 29.2 x 24.4 in //
Private collection
Mrs Yates as Mandane in The Orphan of China, 1765
Oil on canvas, 50.9 × 75.7 in
Tate Britain, London
Dancers, c 1769–1771
Oil on canvas, 63.5 × 52 in
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Muhammad Ali Khan, the Nawab of Arcot, c 1769–1771
Oil on canvas, 42.9 × 35 in
Norfolk Museums Service, Norwich, UK
Alexander Davidson, Governor of Madras, 1770
Oil on canvas, 27.5 × 24 in
Christ Church, Oxford, UK
Sarah Judith de Castro, 1770–1771
Oil on canvas, 28.8 × 23.9 in
Jewish Museum London
Daniel de Castro, 1770–1771
Oil on canvas, 29.7 × 25 in
Jewish Museum London
Arcot Princes, c 1770
Oil on canvas, 50 × 38 in
Private Collection
Shuja al-Daula, Nawab of Awadh, 1772
Oil on canvas, 50 × 40 in
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
A Woman Holding a Hookah at Faizabad, India, 1772
Oil on canvas, 76.8 × 47.8 in
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
David Scott, Merchant and Director of the East India Company, c 1775
Oil on canvas, 30 × 25 in
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Portrait of Anne Howard-Vyse, 1780
Oil on canvas, 30 × 25 in
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand
Portrait of Two Children in Eastern Costumes, c 1780
Oil on canvas, 50.7 × 40 in
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Major William Davy, Bengal Army, Persian Secretary to the Governor-General, in Persian Dress, c 1781
Oil on canvas, 13.7 × 11.8 in
National Army Museum, London
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