Dr David Boyd Haycock is a freelance author and curator, specialising in 20th-century British art. He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including Paul Nash(Tate Publishing, 2001/2016) and A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (Old Street Publishing, 2009), short-listed by the Writers¿ Guild of Great Britain in 2010 as Best Work of Non-Fiction. As well as having curated exhibitions at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Poole Museum and Salisbury Museum, he has also recently completed a new biography of the Welsh artist, Augustus John.

Foreword by Sir John Kemp-Welch 7
Introduction by David Messum 9
Preface 11
Chapter 1 Origins 21
Chapter 2 The Herkomer School 43
Chapter 3 Colt Hunting 61
Chapter 4 Love and Life 87
Chapter 5 In Open Country 105
Chapter 6 Serious Understanding 123
Chapter 7 War 139
Chapter 8 Days of Crowded Life 173
Epilogue 201
Interview with Lucy Kemp-Welch 1910 205
Endnotes 210
Bibliography 219
List of Works 220
Index 221
Acknowledgements 224

Over the course of a long and very successful career spanning the first half of the 20th century, Lucy Kemp-Welch established herself as one of the leading equestrian painters at work in the UK and one of the country's best-known women artists. David Boyd Haycock's new, extensively illustrated biography of Kemp-Welch brings this remarkable artist and her work back into sharp focus.  

Born in 1869, Kemp-Welch first came to the art establishment's attention in 1897 when her immense painting,
Colt Hunting in the New Forest
, caused a sensation at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition; the work was bought for the Nation by the Chantry Bequest in the year of exhibition. In 1915, she illustrated Anna Sewell's
Black Beauty
, and was commissioned to paint images for the Government during the First World War. Later, the mural
Women's Work in the Great War
, was placed in the Royal Exchange in London, where it remains to this day.

Respected art writer and curator Boyd-Haycock shines new light on Kemp-Welch's life, writing from a 21st-century perspective and reflecting on her as a female painter in a male-dominated environment. Alongside Kemp-Welch's paintings, the book will feature exclusive period photographs of the artist herself, shown at work and in her studio.