Edith Mary Kemp-Welch (1870–1941) was a British artist, known as a portrait painter.
Biography
Edith Kemp-Welch grew up in
Bournemouth
Bournemouth () is a coastal resort town in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area of Dorset, England. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 183,491, making it the largest town in Dorset. It is situated on the Southern ...
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
Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (20 June 1869 – 27 November 1958) was a British artist and teacher who specialised in painting horses. Though increasingly overlooked after the Second World War, from the late 1890s to the mid 1920s she was one o ...
, 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
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
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
Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...