Lucy kemp-welch paintings for sale
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Lucy Kemp-Welch
British painter
Lucy Kemp-Welch | |
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| Born | (1869-06-20)20 June 1869 Bournemouth |
| Died | 27 November 1958(1958-11-27) (aged 89) Watford |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | The Herkomer School |
| Known for | Equine artist |
Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (20 June 1869 – 27 November 1958) was a British artist and teacher who specialized in painting horses. Though increasingly overlooked after the Second World War, from the late 1890s to the mid-1920s she was one of the country's best-known female artists. As 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".'[1] Her reputation has since revived
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Portfolio - paintings in The Lucy Kemp-Welch Memorial Trust Collection
Around 130 pictures comprising:
‘Now, Auster do your best’ (illustration for 'Black Beauty'); A Cockerel; After Sundown, Lulworth, 1956; Aristocrats; Artwork for Book Cover for Black Beauty c.1913; Back of the Cottages; Barnet Horse Fair (illustration from Black Beauty, 1915); Bench Tor, Dartmoor; Book of Birds and Beasts (14 pictures); Breeze and Broad Spaces, a Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Usbourne and her Arab Horse, 1926; Burnt Out Fires, aka Dying Fires; Bushey Church and Pond, 1910; Capt.The Hon. Elyder Herbert; Centaurs; Chewing the Cud; Collage of Horses - preparatory work for 'Something in the Wind'; Colt Hunting in the New Forest, 1899; Cormorant Preening; Drawing of a horse's head, a man with a whip and two other horses; Drawing the Carriage; For Life; FORWARD! Forward To Victory ENLIST NOW; Fox Cubs; Grey Cob; Gypsy Horsedrovers; Handmade greetings card with inscription to Lucy's father; Hauling the Guns; Hay Harvest on the Downs; Head and Shoulders Portrait of a Young Woman; Head of a Horse; Ho
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Lucy Kemp-Welch
(1869-1958)
LINK TO OUR ONLINE SELLING EXHIBITION OF WORKS FROM THE FAMILY COLLECTION.
21 drawings all priced at less than £1000.
We have our own personal collection of work by this artist so do contact us if you are interesting in discussing her work or thinking of selling . We are also selling a number of original drawings by Lucy from our own collection so do contact us for more details .
WORK THAT WE LOANED TO THE MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION 1st April 2023 - 25th February 2024 is now back with us and available to purchase.
Lucy Kemp-Welch is considered among the greatest British painters of equine subject. Lucy Kemp-Welch was 20 in 1889 when she arrived in Bushey to become a student at the art school run by German-born artist Hubert von Herkomer. She liked the village so much that she stayed there for the rest of her life, until she died, in hospital at Watford at the age of 89, on November 28, 1958. Her work can now be seen in the Bushey Museum.
She lived and worked at 20 High Street, Bushey. She was 26 when she exhibited h
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