HEMP, CHARLES NAPIER (1841-1917), British painter, born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, was trained in the Newcastle school of art, in the Antwerp academy and in the studio of Baron Leys. He is best known by his admirable marine paintings. He was elected an A.R.A. in 1898, associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1890 and member in 1897. Two of his paintings, "Pilchards" (1897) and "London River" (19o4), are in the National Galley of British Art. He died at Falmouth on Sept. 3o, 1917.