Edith Mary Kemp-Welch (1870–1941) was a British artist, known as a portrait painter.
Biography
Edith Kemp-Welch grew up in Bournemouth and attended the Bournemouth School of Art before, in 1892, enlisting in the art school established by Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey in Hertfordshire. She continued to live in Bushey when her elder sister, Lucy Kemp-Welch, took over the running of the school. Between 1898 and 1940, Edith Kemp-Welch exhibited a total of 29 paintings, which were mostly portraits but also included at last one landscape, at the Royal Academy in London. During the First World War, both sisters produced recruiting posters for the British war effort. The poster created by Edith Kemp-Welch featured an image of Britannia with the slogan "Remember Scarborough ! Enlist Now", a reference to the war-time attack on Scarborough. Works by Kemp-Welch are held by the Imperial War Museum in London and by Bushey Museum and Art Gallery. Her cousin Margaret Kemp-Welch (1874–1968) was also an artist.
References
- ^ "Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch 1869-1958". Bushey Museum and Art Gallery. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-173-2.
- Christopher Wood (1978). The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0-902028-72-3.
- ^ "Remember Scarborough !". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
External links
- 6 artworks by or after Edith Kemp-Welch at the Art UK site
- 1870 births
- 1941 deaths
- 19th-century English painters
- 19th-century English women artists
- 20th-century English painters
- 20th-century English women artists
- English women painters
- Artists from Bournemouth
- People from Bushey
- Sibling artists
- World War I artists
- 20th-century British women painters
- 19th-century British women painters