{{short description|British artist}} {{Use British English|date= July 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date= July 2021}} '''Ethel Kate Westrup''' (1885–1928) was a British artist, notable as both a painter and ceramicist.
==Biography== Westrup was born, and raised, at Hornsey in north London, into a family of at least eight children.<ref name="SG2019">{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=Dark River|year=2019|title= British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts |isbn=978-1-911121-63-3}}</ref> 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 Lamorna in Cornwall.<ref name="SG2019"/><ref name="CAI">{{cite web|url=https://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/ethel-kate-westrup|website=Cornwall Artists Index|year=|title=Ethel Kate Westrup |access-date=19 July 2021}}</ref> Kate Westrup produced oil paintings and drawings, often of animal subjects, and had works shown at the Royal Academy in London, with the New English Art Club and in 1912 exhibited chalk drawings of dogs at the Alpine Club.<ref name="SG2019"/> She contributed illustrations to the 1914 ''Punch Book of Hunting''.<ref name="MAW">{{cite book|author=Mary Ann Wingfield|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1992|title= A Dictionary of Sporting Artists 1650-1990 |isbn=}}</ref> Westrup was elected an associate member of the Society of Women Artists in 1923.<ref name="MAW"/> 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.<ref name="SG2019"/> The Pottery closed after Westrup's death in 1928.<ref name="SG2019"/><ref name="CAI"/>
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