Katherine Kinsella
Nationality: American
Date of birth: ca 1866
Place of birth: New York
Date of death: 17 February 1955
Place of death: Italy
Category: collector
Identity:
Kate Kinsella was one of the daughters of the Irish-born American newspaper editor Thomas Kinsella (1832-1884) and his wife Elizabeth (Bess) née Lawless (b. 1833). In the 1875 census for the Brooklyn Ward, New York, his age is given as 44 and his wife's as 42 (they were born in County Wexford), and their children - all born in King's, New York - are listed as Hannah, aged 20, Frances aged 14, Margaret aged 12, Louisa aged 10, and Catherine aged 9.
She later became the Marquesa Presbitero. At the time of her death she was living in the Palazzo Borghese, Rome.
Life:
Kinsella and her sisters (Louise posed to Whistler) came to Paris to complete their education. Kate was 'striking looking' and a 'highly gifted painter' according to William Rothenstein.
She had an exhibition of her paintings of Italy at the Brook Street Galleries, London, in 1935.
Bibliography:
Times, London, 25 May 1935, p. 12; Rothenstein, William, Men and Memories, London, 1931, p. 79.
