Margaret Drury Kemp-Welch (1874 – 15 January 1968) was a British painter and printmaker, mostly of landscape and portraits. She was also a teacher.Margaret Kemp-Welch
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Kemp-Welch was born in

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in London, the daughter of Stanley Kemp-Welch (1843–1929), grew up in Kensington and received her education at the Royal Academy of Arts. She was the cousin of the artists

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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 ...

and studied under Sir

Frank Short Sir Francis Job "Frank" Short PPRE (19 June 1857 – 22 April 1945) was a British printmaker and teacher of printmaking. He revived the practices of mezzotint and pure aquatint, while expanding the expressive power of line in drypoint, etc ...

and at

Hubert von Herkomer Sir Hubert von Herkomer (born as Hubert Herkomer; 26 May 1849 – 31 March 1914) was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film-director, and composer. Though a very successful portrait artist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered fo ...

's school (as did her cousins) in

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in Hertfordshire from 1891. She taught at Clapham High School and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, at the Paris Salon, the

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(RE), and the Ridley Art Club. Kemp-Welch later became an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (ARE) in 1901. Brenda Girvin, an author of girl's novels, dedicated her 1918 book ''Munition Mary'' to "Margaret Kemp-Welch, My Munition Friend", which suggests that they were both munitions workers during the First World War. Kemp-Welch lived in London and then in

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during the 1920s and 1930s and where a mural painted by her is in St George's church in the village. The

holds three of her prints and the

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has many examples of her work. With Constance Cotterell she wrote the libretto for ''The Christmas Rose'' - a children's opera in three scenes with music by

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. She also provided line illustrations for two albums of piano music by Frank Bridge: ''Miniature Pastorals, Set 1'' and ''Set 2''. Each of these contains three short piano pieces, and there is an illustration on the page each piece begins on, depicting scenes apparently from British village life. Margaret Kemp-Welch died on 15 January 1968 at Brighton in Sussex. Margaret D Kemp-Welch in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
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