With an art career spanning over fifty years and his highly coveted original work currently featured in numerous private collections throughout the world, rarely appearing on the open market; Kenneth Somers-Yeates Online Gallery was created through a passion to further extend the work of this talented artist to a wider audience.  An open edition of several celebrated subjects has been hand selected to perfectly compliment the exclusive limited edition pieces.

Kenneth was originally born at Cheltenham in 1920, he was inspired by the countryside and haunted Flatford, East Bergholt and Dedham, birthplace and stamping ground of Constable, a boyhood hero, and did much painting there.  After studying under Ruskin Speare, Carel Weight, Wilkinson and Soniss he spent 28 happy years teaching in London as Head of Art.

He exhibited regularly in the Royal Society of Oil Painters, the National Society of Oil Painters and the Federation of British Artists.  After extra mural studies under Bernard Adams in Portraiture, he was elected to the Royal Institute of Great Britain.  His first one-man show was in Swallow Street in Picadilly in 1951.  His painting of "The Last Supper" was exhibited at the National Society of Oil Painters in the late 1950's   (9' x 6'), and hung for many years in the church of St James Norland, Holland Park.  
 
Retiring from teaching in 1981 he resumed painting and has since executed several commissions for the Crown Equerry which include Holyrood Palace, the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace and two at Windsor Castle.  In 1985 he moved to the Lake District in order to further his passion for painting the countryside, which is where he developed his use of watercolours.

Kenneth has painted literally hundreds of pieces over the years and we are pleased to have raided the archives to select some of his finest work for you to hang and enjoy in your own home.