Lucy Kemp-Welch was a British painter who specialized in painting working horses. She is best known for her illustrations to the 1915 edition of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. She was born in Bournemouth, showing an early excellence in art. At 19, she moved to Bushey to study at Hubert von Herkomer’s art school.
She resided in Bushey, Hertfordshire for most of her life and a major collection of her works is in Bushey Museum. They include very large paintings of wild ponies on Exmoor, galloping polo ponies, the last horse-launched lifeboat being pulled into a boiling sea, heavy working horses pulling felled timber and hard-working farm horses trudging home at the end of the day.
As well as pictures of horses, she painted other animals, flowers, and landscapes. |
