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Ludmilla Pilat Welch: Journey to Santa Barbara
By Hattie Beresford   |   December 2, 2025

Ludmilla Pilat Welch married her artist husband, Thaddeus Welch, in Ossining, New York, in 1883 when she was 16 and he was 39. Thad’s adventure-filled journey to become an artist had eventually led him to study in Munich and Paris for six years before returning to the United States in 1881. He settled for a […]