LAING, MRS. J. G. Principal studies made in Glasgow under Mr. F. H. Newbery; also in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens and Aman-Jean.

This artist is especially occupied with portraits of children and their mothers.  She has, however, exhibited works of another sort.  Her “Sweet Repose” and “Masquerading” were sold from the exhibitions in London and Glasgow, where they were shown.  “Bruges Lace-Makers” was exhibited in Munich in 1903.

The Ladies’ Club of Glasgow is enterprising and its exhibitions are interesting, but Mrs. Laing is not a member of any club, and sends her pictures by invitation to exhibitions on the Continent as well as in Great Britain, and sometimes has a private exhibition in Glasgow.

Her study at Aman-Jean’s and Colarossi’s gave a certain daintiness and grace to her work, which is more Parisian than British in style.  There is great freedom in her brush and a delicacy well suited to the painting of children’s portraits; her children and their mothers really smile, not grin, and are altogether attractive.  I cannot say whether the portraits I have seen are good likenesses, but they have an air of individuality which favors that idea.

LAMB, ELLA CONDIE—­Mrs. Charles R. Lamb.  Dodge prize, National Academy, New York; medal at Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; gold medal, Atlanta Exposition; medal at Pan-American Exposition, 1901.  Member of Art Students’ League, Woman’s Art Club, National Art Club.  Born in New York City.  Pupil of National Academy of Design and of Art Students’ League, New York, under C. Y. Turner, William M. Chase, and Walter Shirlaw; in Paris, pupil of R. Collin and R. Courtois; in England, of Hubert Herkomer, R.A.

Among Mrs. Lamb’s works are “The Advent Angel”; “The Christ Child,” a life-size painting, copied in mosaic for the Conrad memorial, St. Mary’s Church, Wayne, Pennsylvania; “The Arts” and “The Sciences,” executed in association with Charles R. Lamb, for the Sage Memorial Apse designed by him for Cornell University.

Of recent years Mrs. Lamb is much occupied in collaborating with her husband in decorative designs for public edifices.  One of the works thus executed is a memorial window to Mrs. Stella Goodrich Russell in Wells College at Aurora.  It represents three female figures against a landscape background.  Literature is seated in the centre, while Science and Art stand in the side panels.  It has the effect of a triptych.

LAMB, ROSE. Two bronze medals in Boston exhibitions, 1878 and 1879.  Member of the Copley Society.  Born in Boston, where her studies have been made, chiefly under William M. Hunt.

Miss Lamb has painted portraits principally, a large number of which are in Boston in the homes of the families to which they belong.  Among them are Mrs. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., and her children; Mr. J. Ingersoll Bowditch, Mr. Horace Lamb, the three sons of the late Governor Roger Wolcott, the daughters of Mrs. Shepherd Brooks, the children of Mrs. Walter C. Baylies, etc.