A grandson of Sir William Drysdale of Pittenchar

"George Cochrane Kerr was a marine painter in oil and watercolour of coastal and shipping scenes, who lived in London and variously in Kent at Ramsgate, Gillingham and Rochester. His work was exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Royal Institute, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours and 50 pictures at the Fine Art Society. Work in public collections include the National Maritime Museum and the Russell Cotes Gallery and Museum Bournemouth"

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