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Lucy Kemp Welch

Lucy Kemp Welch (1869 - 1958) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  Lucy Welch is known for Equestrian painting.

Lucy Kemp-Welch is known for her outstanding plein-air depictions of horses.  Born at Bournemouth, Kemp-Welch took her first art lessons from two New Forest artists, Arthur Batt and Arthur H. Davies.  She attended Bournemouth College of Art and in 1889 was accepted at Herkomer's School of Art at Bushey.  In 1907 she purchased this School of Art and became its Principal, but she preferred to paint and ride rather than teach and closed the school in 1926.

Kemp-Welch exhibited her first work at the Royal Academy in 1895 and a year later she won much critical acclaim, 'Miss Kemp-Welch has developed a talent such as is uncommon in men and quite rare in women in animal painting' commented Bazaar, May 1, 1896, and a few months later the Dublin Herald remarked, 'She is even now regarded as one of the best painters of horses the century has ever seen.' 

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