Ethel Kate Westrup (1885–1928) was a British artist, notable as both a painter and ceramicist.

Biography

Westrup was born, and raised, at

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in north London, into a family of at least eight children. No record of a formal art education for Westrup has been identified but it is known that around 1911 she moved, with her artist sister Emily (1870-1960), to

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. Kate Westrup produced oil paintings and drawings, often of animal subjects, and had works shown at the

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in London, with the

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and in 1912 exhibited chalk drawings of dogs at the Alpine Club. She contributed illustrations to the 1914 ''Punch Book of Hunting''. Westrup was elected an associate member of the

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in 1923. In the early 1920s, with Ella Naper, Westrup founded the Lamorna Pottery which produced a variety of ceramics and domestic items which were sold through gallery outlets locally and also in Manchester, Liverpool and elsewhere. The Pottery closed after Westrup's death in 1928.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Westrup, Kate 1885 births 1928 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists British painters of animals Artists from the London Borough of Haringey English potters English women painters 20th-century British ceramists British women ceramicists People from Hornsey Sibling artists 20th-century British women painters