Over the course of a long and very successful career spanning the first half of the 20th century, Lucy Kemp-Welch established herself as one of the leading equestrian painters at work in the UK and one of the country-s best-known women artists. David Boyd Haycock-s new, extensively illustrated biography of Kemp-Welch brings this remarkable artist and her work back into sharp focus.
Born in 1869, Kemp-Welch first came to the art establishment-s attention in 1897 when her immense painting, Colt Hunting in the New Forest, caused a sensation at the Royal Academy-s Summer Exhibition; the work was bought for the Nation by the Chantry Bequest in the year of exhibition. In 1915, she illustrated Anna Sewell-s Black Beauty, and was commissioned to paint images for the Government during the First World War. Later, the mural Women-s Work in the Great War, was placed in the Royal Exchange in London, where it remains to this day.
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