Born in Islington, London; Died (location currently unknown)

Painter in oils and watercolour, draughtsman and caricaturist.

Associated with portraits of well-known personalities, artists and musicians; also executed some abstract compositions.

Kapp was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and also in Paris and Rome. He was employed as an Official War Artist during the Second World War, and then as an Official Artist to UNESCO (1946-47). He received a number of one-man shows here in Britain, but also throughout Europe and North America. Kapp was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1961.

Kapp is represented throughout Britain, and beyond, in both public and private collections. British collections include the National Portrait Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Hepworth Wakefield, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (University of Birmingham), the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), Kettle's Yard (University of Cambridge), Manchester Art Gallery, Lakeland Arts Trust, Royal Academy of Music (London), and Dame Alice Owen's School, among many others.

Benjamin Angwin - April 2015