Painter of landscape, architectural, monumental and narrative figure subjects, sometime etcher and teacher. He was born in Gloucester, his father a poet, William Kerr. He was educated at St Paul’s School and the Slade School of Fine Art under Randolph Schwabe, interrupted by Army service. Taught with Kyffin Williams at Highgate School and at St George’s College, Weybridge. Kerr liked panoramic views, in oil and latterly especially watercolour, aiming “to capture the spirit of each place” and “the weather of the changing year.” Views included the Welsh Borders area, continental Europe and South Africa. He exhibited first in Artists of Fame and Promise, Leicester Galleries, 1942, among his later mixed shows being the RA Summer Exhibition, NEAC, Contemporary Portrait Society and Fine Art Society.