Lucy Kemp-Welch
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Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch was a British artist and teacher who specialized in painting horses. Though increasingly overlooked after the Second World War, she was, from the late 1890s to the mid-1920s one Britains's best-known female artists.
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Artwork for Forward! Forward to Victory Enlist Now (1914)
The Straw Ride - Russley Park Remount Depot, Wiltshire (Art.IWM ART3160)
The Ladies' Army Remount Depot, Russley Park, Wiltshire (1918) (Art.IWM ART 3094)
Timber-hauling in the New Forest, 1904, hanging on the stairs at Bristol City Art Gallery. Cat. no.K73Artists from United Kingdom 6
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Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch was a British artist and teacher who specialized in painting horses. Though increasingly overlooked after the Second World War, she was, from the late 1890s to the mid-1920s one Britains's best-known female artists. Her obituary in The Times noted, "Like most artists who came to maturity and were established before the end of the nineteenth century, Lucy Kemp-Welch suffered somewhat in her later reputation from the violent changes in art which followed. In her prime as an animal painter she held a position in this country comparable to that of Rosa Bonheur in France, and the only British woman artist of her generation who was more talked about was Lady Elizabeth Butler, painter of The Roll Call." Her reputation has since revived, and she is best known today for her large paintings of wild and working horses in the New Forest, and those in military service which she produced during the First World War, as well as for her illustrations to the 1915 edition of Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty.
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