Lucy Kemp Welch

Lucy Elizabeth KempWelch was a British painter and teacher who specialized in painting working horses. She is best known for the paintings of horses in military service she produced during World War One and for her illustrations to the 1915 edition of Anna Sewells Black Beauty.

Lucy KempWelch was born in Bournemouth. She showed an early excellence in art and exhibited for the first time when she wasyears old. After attending a local art school, in 1891 she and her younger sister Edith moved to Bushey to study at Hubert von Herkomers art school. As one of Herkomers best and most favoured students, she was able to set up her own studio, in an old former inn known as Kingsley. In due course KempWelch took over the running of the Herkomer School in 1905 and ran it until 1926, first as the Bushey School of Painting and then, after relocating it to her own home, as the KempWelch School of Animal Painting. After 1928 the school was run by KempWelchs former assistant Marguerite Forbisher as the Forbisher School of Art. While still a student KempWelch had a painting, Gypsy Drovers taking Horses to a Fair shown at the Royal Academy in 1895. KempWelch received further public recognition in 1897 when her painting ColtHunting in the New Forest was also shown at the Ro

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