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British painter

Lucy Kemp-Welch
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 w