29th Aug, 2023 13:00
Scottish Pictures
ANNIE ROSE LAING (SCOTTISH 1869 - 1946)
A QUIET READ
oil on canvas, signed
framed
image size 49cm x 74cm, overall size 69cm x 94cm
Note: Annie Rose Laing was a figure painter who lived variously in Glasgow, Frascati in Italy and in London, married to the artist James Garden Laing, who predeceased her by 31 years. Laing, who worked for a time under her maiden name Annie Rose Low, was born in Glasgow, where she studied at the School of Art, 1888–94, in the latter year winning the Haldane Travelling Scholarship. She studied under Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. In the year she was married, 1908, she joined the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists. Exhibited in Munich, Germany, and in Rome International Exhibition, both 1911. Showed extensively at Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, also at RSA, RA (London) and Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. The Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow holds her oils "The Mirror" and "After Rehearsal". Died in Uckfield, Sussex.
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