The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-08

realms of art ever since her painting
entitled ITO Arms" representing an
early morning scene in the camp of the
duke of York's army before the first
battle of the Roses at st. Adams, was
seen at the Royal academy exhibit.
The scene represents a camp alive with
warlike preparations. with the war
horses that Miss Kemp-Welch has
shown she can paint so splendidly true
to life, prancing and tossing their
names as though they already scent
the battle from afar and are eager to be
galloping enemyWard.
Miss Kemp-Welch grew to be the
great artist by no accident or f1uke of
fortune. In her home life at the place
of her birth, the beautiful English
town of Bournemouth, she was brought
up in an artistic atmosphere, for her
mother was deeply interested in arts
tic subjects, and her father a botanist
and natural history collector. In her
girlhood the future animal painter ac-
companied her father in his rambles
and grew quite learned in tine ways of
beetles and creeping things, making
wonderful progress for a child in the
knowledge of the creatures OF the natu-
raj history world, sketching birds,
horses and beetles with equal patience
and method.
But Miss Kemp elch's first love
was the horse and she never for
moment swerved from it. She grew
quite desperate to study Systematically
when, at the age of Is, one of her pic
lures, a study in horses heads, which
had been on exhibition, was snapped up
by a dealer. Her young spirit was
beating itself out against the bars, de-
string to enter the world of art and
take her place with other aspirants to
fame and fortune. Soon after her
mothers death Professor Herkomer of
Bushey art school discovered" Miss
Welph Now for a first time
she was really taught to paint. By her
own PRACTICES she had acquired the
power of correct observation and q
knowledge of drawing, it may be said,
from the life, but hitherto she had not
leaned the method of putting on co.ors
and of manipulating them. However,
that realized how spontaneous has
been the genius of Miss Kemp WEIGH.
l should emphasize the fact that not
at Bushey or anywhere else has she
studied animal painting-that seems to
have come by nature. She follows no
master and no special school. Her
simple advice to art students, who
flock to her studio for instruction, is
"Be individual, be natural and copy
only nature"
still a girl. Her face is wonderfully
sweet and full of a subtle power which
grows every hour that you are in her
presence. You feel it in the steady,
quiet voice and the look of her brown
eyes, so soft and yet so penetrating.
Simple in tastes, manner and in dress,
the artist has selected home which
seems exactly fit for her. 1t stands I'M
pretentiously in line with other
houses in the center Of the old village
of Bushey, opposite to the church, and
is named Kingsley" Originally the
house was an old wayside inn, and
what was once the bar has been con-
verted into the cosiest and quaintest
old square entrance hall imaginable,
with grandfathers clock ticking in
the corner. Looking onto the village
street is Miss Kemp WEIGHS study,
where she sees visitors and transacts
business and correspondence for she
leads a very busy life and is at work
from morning till night with her own
paintings, or instructing pupils who at
tend at her studio. A few steps down
from the hall is the dining room; this
has been heightened by letting into it
a conservatory, which throws a general
sense of light and brightness into the
ROOM Miss Kemp WEIGH and her sis
ter Edith. who are as devoted to each
other as sisters can be, and have never
been separated from each other, have
transformed this old inn into one of
the quaintest, homeliest and most ar
tistic homes one can imagine.
From kingsley" there makes its ap-
pearance at intervals an animal paint
ing around which the connoisseurs
gather in admiration, congratulating
each other that if Rosa Bonheur has
passed from the world of art her skill
with the brush lives in another.