{{short description|British artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Vere Lucy Temple''' (8 February 1898 – 14 March 1980) was a British artist, best known for her illustrations of British wildlife. She had a particular interest in entomology.<ref name=BVM>{{Citation | last = Guttridge | first = Roger | title = In a naturalist's footsteps | journal = Blackmore Vale Magazine | date = 15 January 2010 }}</ref>
==Life== Vere Temple was born at Boreham Manor, two miles east of Warminster, Wiltshire to parents Grenville and Katherine Temple. Her father was a man of "private means".<ref>Census of England Wales and Scotland 1901; see also Census of England and Wales 1911</ref> She showed an early aptitude for art, and her mother compiled an album of her drawings, the earliest of which was dated December 1901 and in which "it is possible to spot evidence of the extraordinary 'eye' which was in due course to blossom".<ref name=BVM/> From the 1920s, her work was exhibited in many leading galleries across the country, including the New Society of Artists in London.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} In 1932, Temple had her portrait painted by Sir Cedric Morris.<ref name=BVM/>
In 1939, she was living in a flat in Notting Hill, London.<ref>1939 Register: 4th floor, 5 Ladbroke Gardens, Notting Hill, Kensington & Chelsea</ref> By the 1940s, Temple was living at Tollard Royal, Wiltshire.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1A0TAAAAIAAJ|title=The Entomologist|publisher=J. Van Voorst|year=1951|volume=84-85|page=29}}</ref> By 1947, Temple was a member of the Royal Entomological Society of London.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcrwAAAAMAAJ |title=Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London: Journal of meetings. Series C. |publisher=Royal Entomological Society of London |year=1947 |page=33}}</ref>
She died in 1980 in Ringwood, Hampshire.<ref>''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007'' forename misprinted as Vera</ref><ref>''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995''</ref> In 1981, an auction of her "studio collection of very fine botanical, entomological, domestic and wildlife drawings, watercolours and book illustrations" was sold in more than 180 lots by the auctioneers Lawrence's of Crewkerne.<ref name="BVM" />
Examples of her art are held in the collections of the British Council,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/artist/5/18121/0/0 |title=British Council − Art Collection − Collection |access-date=January 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604234133/http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/artist/5/18121/0/0 |archive-date=June 4, 2011 }}</ref> Manchester City Gallery,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/contactsheet.php?creator=Temple%2C+Vere&r=|title = Collections}}</ref> the National Portrait Gallery<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?firstRun=true&sText=vere+temple&search=sa&LinkID=mp07624&rNo=0&role=art|title = Prince John - National Portrait Gallery}}</ref> and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vere Temple - Collections Online |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/2222 |website=Te Papa Tongarewa - Museum of New Zealand |access-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
==Books by Vere Temple== *''An Artist Goes to the Dogs'' (1937) *''Baby Animals on the Farm, and How to Draw Them'' (1941) *''How to Draw Wild Flowers'' (1942) London: Studio Publications *''Butterflies and Moths in Britain'' (1945) London: B. T. Batsford *''Flowers and Butterflies'' (1946) London; New York: The Studio, "How To Do It" Series, no. 33 *''British Butterflies'' (1949) London: Collins, "Britain in Pictures" Series *''How to Draw Pond Life'' (1956) London: Studio Publications
==Illustrating others' works== *''Hedgerow Tales'' by Enid Blyton (1935) *''Hutchinson's Dog Encyclopaedia'' (1935) *''Insect Life in Britain'' by Geoffrey Taylor (1945) *''British Garden Flowers'' by George M. Taylor (1946) *''Some British Beetles'' by Geoffrey Taylor (1948)
== Catalogues ==
* ''List of water colours of British plants and trees executed by Vere Temple of Kings Chase, Tollard Royal, Salisbury''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Temple|first=Vere|title=List of water colours of British plants and trees executed by Vere Temple of Kings Chase, Tollard Royal, Salisbury.|language=en|oclc=182856846}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[http://www.artnet.com/artist/424675573/lucy-vere-temple.html Vere Temple on Artnet] *[https://dsi.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/index.php?tablename=dsi&function=details&where_field=id&where_value=4504 Vere Temple at the Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950], University of Stuttgart *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120219190350/http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/contactsheet.php?creator=Temple%2C+Vere&r= Works at Manchester Art Gallery], archived in 2012 * [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07624 Portraits by Vere Temple] at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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