Lucy Marguerite Frobisher was born in Leeds in 1890. She studied at the Bushey School of Painting and in 1920 was appointed secretary of the school, founded by artist Lucy Kemp-Welch who became her lover. They worked together and unusually, are buried in the same grave.
Kemp-Welch had been taught by Hubert von Herkomer, and in 1905 took over the running of his art school, renaming it the Bushey School of Painting. In 1928 Frobisher took over and renamed it once again, as the Frobisher School of Painting. The school focused on Landscape and Animal painting.
Over time Kemp-Welch has become famous for her paintings of animals, but it is curious that Frobisher took such a back seat in her artistic life.
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
Recently Lucy and Lucy’s grave was restored by locals.
