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Property from a Private Collection

Lucy Kemp-Welch

The Joy of Life

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection


Lucy Kemp-Welch

British

1869 - 1958

The Joy of Life


signed and dated L Kemp-Welch / 1906 lower left

oil on canvas

244 by 366cm., 96 by 144in.

Purchased by the sculptor Charles Egerton Browne (1910-1996) in 1975

Thence by descent to the present owner

London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1906, no. 356

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, 1906

Bristol, Fine Arts Academy, Spring Exhibition, 1909, no. 148

Daily Express, 5 May 1906, p. 1

Hampshire Observer and Basingstoke News, 5 May 1906, p. 5

Morning Post, 5 May 1906, p. 5

Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 6 May 1906, p. 10

Gentlewoman, 12 May 1906, p. 25

Manchester Courier, 16 May 1906, p. 10

Truth, 16 May 1906, p. 42

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 19 May 1906, illustrated p. 426

Bournemouth Graphic, 24 May 1906, p. 10

Globe, 24 May 1906, p. 3

The Queen, 26 May 1906, p. 64

Bucks Advertiser and Aylesbury News, 2 June 1906, p. 6

Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 3 June 1906, p. 18

Birmingham Daily Post, 6 June 1906, p. 4

Birkenhead News, 12 September 1906, p. 2

Manchester Courier, 14 September 1906, p. 7

Western Daily News, 12 February 1909, p. 9

Bristol Times and Mirror, 16 March 1909, p. 10

David Messum, The Life and Work of Lucy Kemp-Welch, Woodbridge, 1976, pp. 110 and 49 (illustrated)

Laura Wortley, Lucy Kemp-Welch 1869-1958 – The Spirit of the Horse, Woodbridge, 1996, pp. 100, 103 and 210 (illustrated)