| Laelia Armine Cockburn | |
| Birth Date: | 23 March 1894 |
| Birth Place: | Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland |
| Death Place: | Hawick, Scotland |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Relatives: | Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, great grandfather |
| Field: | Watercolours, especially of animals |
| Training: | Lucy Kemp-Welch |
| Awards: | Guthrie Award, 1925 |
| Elected: | Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour |
Laelia Armine Cockburn (23 March 1894 – 16 November 1969) was a Scottish painter, born in Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway. She won the Guthrie Award in 1925 with her work A Rough Lot For Sale.[1]
Laelia Armine Cockburn was born in Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway. Her parents were John Cockburn (18 October 1858 - 22 November 1928) and Isabel Mary Dew (3 April 1864 - 21 July 1952). Laelia was one of their four children. She was the Great granddaughter of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn and on 26 April 1954 attended the opening of a commemorative plaque in Edinburgh commissioned by the Saltire Society.[2]
While growing up at North Berwick, she played golf at the North Berwick Ladies Club.[3]
She studied at the Lucy Kemp-Welch School at Bushey.[4]
She was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1924.[4]
She won the Guthrie Award in 1925 with her work A Rough Lot For Sale at the Royal Scottish Academy open exhibition in that year.[1]
The 1925 Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts exhibition in the McLellan Galleries saw Cockburn exhibit Baby Blue Hare which was soon after sold.[5]
At the 1929 RSW exhibition at the McLellan Galleries in Glasgow, Cockburn entered her work, the Aberdeen Press and Journal headlining 'Women shine at fine exhibition'.[6] The Scotsman newspaper commented on Cockburn's fine watercolours of animals:[7]
Miss Laelia A. Cockburn paints horses not only with knowledge and observation, but also with a sympathy which makes them remarkably eloquent and expressive and gives them a definite individuality. The same quality of sympathy is to be seen in her sketch of a couple of dogs, entitled Contemplative, in the second room.
It was reported by the Dundee Evening Telegraph that her work In the Shed had been sold.[8]
In the 1940 Society of Scottish Artists exhibition in Edinburgh, Cockburn exhibited The Foal.[9]
She exhibited three works at the 1943 RSW exhibition at the RSA Galleries in Edinburgh:- Pads, of a sporting dog; Little Friend, another dog study; and The Rubbing Post.[10]
In the Scottish Society of Woman Artists exhibition of 1960, Cockburn exhibited a seascape Rising Tide.[11]
She died on 16 November 1969, in the St. Andrews Convent care home, in Hawick.[12]
She normally signed her work 'LAC'.[13] [14]