Edith Kemp-Welch
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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.{{cite web|url=https://busheymuseum.org/artists-lucy-elizabeth-kemp-welch/|title=Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch 1869-1958|website=Bushey Museum and Art Gallery|access-date=14 July 2021}} She continued to live in Bushey when her elder sister, Lucy Kemp-Welch, took over the running of the school.{{cite book|author=Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1997|title=The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920|isbn=1-85149-173-2}} 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.{{cite book|author=Christopher Wood|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1978|title=The Dictionary of Victorian Painters |isbn=0-902028-72-3}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/14989 |title=Remember Scarborough !|access-date=14 July 2021|website=Imperial War Museum}} 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.
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Category:19th-century English painters
Category:19th-century English women artists
Category:20th-century English painters
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:English women painters
Category:Artists from Bournemouth
Category:20th-century British war artists