page_title: Wilfred Byng Kenrick
section_title: Art collection
hierarchical_section_title: Wilfred Byng Kenrick / Art collection
caption_attribution_description: Depicts s the marriage of the mortal Peleus to the sea-goddess Thetis, with all the Olympian gods in attendance.
context_page_description: Alderman Wilfred Byng Kenrick was an English industrialist, politician and educationalist, who served as Lord Mayor of Birmingham.
context_section_description: Kenrick owned significant artworks, some inherited from his father.  In 1956, he presented the Edward Burne-Jones painting The Feast of Peleus to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, in memory of his father. John Everett Millais' The Ransom, which was part of the inheritance, was sold after Byng's death, and having been resold, is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum.
  The Lantern Maker's Courtship, A Street Scene in Cairo by William Holman Hunt was donated by his family, to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 1962, as was Head of a Boy by Joseph Southall in 1964.
caption: The Feast of Peleus by Edward Burne-Jones, donated by Byng Kenrick to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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