Kate Lechmere | |
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![]() Kate Lechmere in 1925 | |
Born | Kate Elizabeth Lechmere 13 October 1887 Fownhope, Herefordshire, England |
Died | February 1976 (aged 88) |
Occupation(s) | Painter and milliner |
Kate Elizabeth Lechmere (13 October 1887 – February 1976)[1] was a British painter who with Wyndham Lewis was the co-founder of the Rebel Art Centre in 1914.[2] As far as is known, none of Lechmere's paintings have survived.[3] She served as a nurse in England during the First World War and had a three-year relationship with the poet and critic T.E. Hulme before he was killed. After the war she became a successful milliner.