"In 1903, Kirkpatrick went to Jamaica at the invitation of Alfred Jones, director of the Liverpool firm of Elder, Dempster and Company. Two years earlier, Jones had ‘inaugurated a new steamship service to Jamaica, bought up hotels, and began to revive the flagging West Indian trade’
(Robert A Hill (editor),The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers, University of California Press, 1986, vol v, page 683, footnote 3). 

      He then enlisted the services of photographers, lantern lecturers and artists, including Kirkpatrick, to help promote the island. The watercolours that Kirkpatrick produced as a result were exhibited in London, and elsewhere in England, before being disposed of by auction in Kingston."

      Apparently Kirkpatrick was the only artist along with numerous photographers!

      I have to wonder where all those Kirkpatrick watercolours auctioned in Kingston before World War One, are today?

                        Daily Gleaner, April 14, 1903

                        Daily Gleaner, April 8, 1903

 The above view shows Port Royal and the Palisades with the guard ship HMS "Urgent" at anchor.

                                Daily Gleaner, March 28, 1904

                                Daily Gleaner, December 16, 1904