Lady Caroline Kininmonth (1907-1978) was a British artist, known for her paintings of flowers and landscapes in both oil and watercolours.

Biography

Kininmonth spent most of her life in

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and studied at the

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from 1926 to 1930. Working in oils, she painted still-life and botanic subjects plus rural scenes and landscapes. During the 1940s and 1950s she was a regular exhibitor at the

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, showing some twenty-five works there. Kininmonth also exhibited with the

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and the

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. She was married to the architect Sir William Kininmonth and both

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and the Arts Council of Scotland hold examples of her paintings.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kininmonth, Caroline 1907 births 1978 deaths 20th-century Scottish painters 20th-century Scottish women artists Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art Artists from Edinburgh Scottish women painters