WInifred Wimbush (1884-1958) - Winifred Wimbush came from a family of artists. She was the daughter of Henry Wimbush (1858-1943), who usually signed his work as H B or Henry B Wimbush, and sister of Olive (1901-1985) who was also an artist.
Winifred Wimbush provided the artwork for nine sets of stylish postcards published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. Several of the sets (Call to Arms 8772, 8773 and 8774 and Women in Wartime 8872) were loosely “propaganda" cards for the 1st World War and would probably have been published between 1914-1916.
The 9 sets were :
2372 Sweet Maidenhood
2373 Tres Chic
2396 Tres Chic
3603 Sporting Girls
8772 A Call to Arms - Series 1
8773 A Call to Arms - Series 2
8774 A Call to Arms - Series 3
8872 Women in Wartime
8882 A Winsome Lassie
Very little is known about Winifred herself or her painting, except that she married Robert Hughes-Sands in 1922. Towards the end of WW2 she married Roland Guy Bavington and they had an antiques business in Torquay, later moving to Budleigh Salterton, Devon where she died in 1958.
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