John Kay is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: British miniaturist and caricaturist, 1742-1826. The Getty record lists his roles as caricaturist, etcher, miniature painter and draftsman, and gives his nationality as Scottish and British. The Metropolitan Museum of Art lists him as British, born Dalkeith, Scotland 1742, died Edinburgh 1826 and holds the prints John Knox, the Scottish Reformer, dated 1810, and John Wesley, dated 1790. The Getty record carries 4 name forms and the identifier 500004452. In this atlas he is linked as the maker of that work in the museum's collection.
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Source The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access API: Metropolitan Museum of Art object record 391469artistDisplayNameQuote, artistDisplayName
"artistDisplayName": "John Kay"
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Source The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access API: Metropolitan Museum of Art object record 912194artistDisplayNameQuote, artistDisplayName
"artistDisplayName": "John Kay"
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Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: John Kay (British miniaturist and caricaturist, 1742-1826)Record displayQuote, Record display
Kay, John (British miniaturist and caricaturist, 1742-1826)
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Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: John Kay (British miniaturist and caricaturist, 1742-1826)Birth and Death PlacesQuote, Birth and Death Places
Born: Dalkeith (Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
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1. Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: John Kay (British miniaturist and caricaturist, 1742-1826)
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