Annie Rose Laing
{{Short description|British artist (1869–1946)}}
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Annie Rose Laing née Annie Rose Low (20 January 1869 – 1946) was a Scottish artist, known for her paintings of landscapes, children and interiors.
Biography
Laing was born in Glasgow and studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1888 to 1894, when she won a Haldane Travelling Scholarship which allowed her to study in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}} Laing subsequently lived at Frascati in Italy and in London for a time but most of her life was spent in Glasgow.{{cite book|author=Grant M. Waters|publisher=Eastbourne Fine Art|year=1975|title=Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950}} She joined the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in 1908, the same year in which she married the artist James Garden Laing.{{cite book|author=Paul Harris & Julian Halsby|publisher=Canongate|year=1990|title=The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present|isbn=1-84195-150-1}} Laing mostly exhibited her work in Scotland, being a regular exhibitor with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and, less frequently, with both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Aberdeen Artists Society.{{cite book|author=Peter J.M. McEwan|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1994|title=The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture|isbn=1-85149-134-1}} Laing also took part in exhibitions in both Munich and Rome during 1911 and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and had at least three works shown at the Royal Academy in London. She died at Uckfield in Sussex. The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow holds examples of her paintings.{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 8 Koort-Maekava|isbn=2-7000-3078-8}}
Gallery
File:Annie Rose Laing Interior.jpg|Interior, oil on canvas 38 x 28 cm
File:Annie Rose Laing After Rehearsal (ca. 1922).jpg|After Rehearsal (ca. 1922), oil on canvas 74 x 61.4 cm
File:Annie Rose Laing Lady at the Breakfast Table.jpg|Lady at the Breakfast Table, oil on canvas 68 x 58 cm
File:Annie Rose Laing The Mirror (ca. 1919).jpg|The Mirror (ca. 1919), oil on canvas 66 x 53.3 cm
References
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External links
- {{Art UK bio}}
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Category:19th-century Scottish painters
Category:19th-century Scottish women painters
Category:20th-century Scottish painters
Category:Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art