As her obituary in The Times noted, 'Like most artists who came to maturity and were established before the end of the nineteenth century, Lucy Kemp-Welch suffered somewhat in her later reputation from the violent changes in art which followed.

'[1] Her reputation has since revived, and she is best known today for her large paintings of wild and working horses in the New Forest, and those in military service which she produced during the First World War, as well as for her illustrations to the 1915 edition of Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty.

[3] Kemp-Welch received further public recognition in 1897 when her painting Colt-Hunting in the New Forest was also shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

She also painted at least two Boer War scenes, In Sight: Lord Dundonald's dash on Ladysmith, 1901 (Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter), and Sons of the City (private collection).

'[9] During World War One, women were employed at Army Remount Depots in training and preparing horses for military service.

Although popular images at the time, these painting are not without their critics as they provided a heroic view of warfare which was at odds with the reduced role of horse artillery in an increasingly mechanised conflict.

[16] In 1924, for the Royal Exchange, Kemp-Welch designed and completed a large panel commemorating the work of women during World War One.

[20] They include very large paintings of wild ponies on Exmoor, galloping polo ponies, the last horse-launched lifeboat being pulled into a boiling sea, heavy working horses pulling felled timber and hard-working farm horses trudging home at the end of the day.

In 1915 Edith produced a poster for the British war effort, featuring an image of Britannia with the slogan "Remember Scarborough," a reference to the shelling of the Yorkshire seaside town by German warships.

Article from The Spectator by art critic Laura Gascoigne reviewing the exhibition of paintings by Lucy Kemp-Welch 'In Her Own Voice' at Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, 2023 https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/an-extraordinary-woman-the-art-of-lucy-kemp-welch-at-russell-cotes-art-gallery-reviewed/