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Kemp-Welch, Lucy Elizabeth. Fellow and Associate of Herkomer School, and member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Born at Bournemouth, 1869. Has exhibited annually at the Royal Academy since 1894. In 1897 her picture of "Colt Hunting in the New Forest" was purchased by the trustees of the Chantrey Bequest; in 1900 that of "Horses Bathing in the Sea" was bought for the National Gallery at Victoria. In 1901 she exhibited "Lord Dundonald's Dash on Ladysmith."

In July, 1903, in his article on the Royal Academy Exhibition, the editor of the Magazine of Arty in enumerating good pictures, mentions: " Miss Lucy Kemp-Welch's well-studied ’Village Street' at dusk, and her clever ’Incoming Tide,' with its waves and rocks and its dipping, wheeling sea gulls."

Mr. Frederick Wetmore, in writing of the Spring Exhibition of the Royal Painter Etchers, says : " Miss Kemp-Welch, whose best work, so delicate that it could only lose by the reduction of a process block, shows the ordinary English country, the sign-post of the crossways, and the sheep along the lane."

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Kendell, Marie von. Born in Lannicken, 1838. Pupil of Pape, Otto von Kameke, and Dressier. She travelled in England, Italy, and Switzerland, and many of her works represent scenes in these countries. In 1882 she painted the Cadinen Peaks near Schluderbach, in the Ampezzo Valley. At the exhibition of the Women Ar-