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An example of work by Leigh Mulhall Kilpin
Photo provided by Linda Talley
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following, submitted January 2005, is from Paul Therien, great, great grandson of the artist.
"L.M. Kilpin is my great great grandfather. He died in 1919 and
was born in 1853. In London, he attended the National Art
Training School, known from 1896 as the Royal College of Art. He
also taught there
prior to moving to Canada.
The family originally settled in Montreal
and then moved to the west coast. His family and the Rammel
family joined through marriage, and his grandaughter Marie Rammel (Later
Layman) was my mother's mother. The families settled in Hainey BC
and on Vancouver Island. The Rammell family was one of the first
to bring Arabian Horses to Canada and breed them. They also at
one time had extensive lumber and mining holdings. My Grandmother
was raised on the family estate near Nanaimo on the island and spent
time on the Rammel's Hainey Ranch, where she met my Grandfather who was
raised on the Layman Family Estate.
Both the Kilpin family and Rammel family had lineage that was 'blue',
and maintained that lineage for several generations. The Kilpin
family maintained a Duchy in northern France until they fled to England
in, I believe the 1700's. The Rammels were minor nobles from the
Isle of Man.
His name is also spelled Leigh Mulhall Kilpin, not Legh - although for
some reason there are those in the Art community who dispute that for
unfounded and highly inaccurate reasons. On all legal documents
still possesed by the family his name is spelled Leigh."
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The following was received from James Kilpin, whose great-grandfather was the brother of the artist:
Legh's name is spelled without the 'i' on all English records that concern his birth, marriage and census details. I have original paintings signed on the reverse by Legh, spelling his own name without the 'i' (dated 1870).
Furthermore...the Rammel family joined his family via his daughter-in-law (Flora Kilpin nee MacDonnell), when she re-married, after her husband, (Legh's son -Eric Kilpin) died in his 30's.
She then married George Rammell.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born on the Isle of Wight in Ryde, England, Legh Kilpin became a
resident painter of Montreal, Canada, and was known for his portraits,
landscapes, miniatures, and etching.
He studied art in England at the South Kensington School of Art in London and later became Art Master there.
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1906, he emigrated to Canada with his wife and children. He became a
member of the Art Association of Montreal and the Arts Club and
exhibited at the Royal Academy of London and the Royal Canadian
Academy. Two of his paintings are in the National Gallery of Canada.
The Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre houses the largest collection of Kilpin's.
Lindsay McArthur
Arts and Heritage Programmer,
Langley Centennial Museum
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