Kit Lewis
Kathleen Margaret "Kit" Lewis was a British painter, a member of The London Group.
The second daughter of Henry Bryan Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett-Osborne and Margaret Sydney Bourns, she was born Kathleen Margaret Godfrey-Faussett-Osborne in Lichfield, Staffordshire. Her father was a probate officer and civil servant. She studied at the Chelsea College of Art under Graham Sutherland.
Career
Lewis joined The London Group in 1948. In 1953, she had her first solo show at the Leicester Galleries and continued to show there on a frequent basis.
Personal life
On 20 May 1940, she married Edward Morland Lewis, an artist who died in North Africa in 1943 while employed as a war artist. In 1954, she married Sir James Maude Richards, an architectural writer. The couple had one son Alexander, who died in 1972 age only sixteen, having been hit by a car.