Gladys Laycock Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1882 - d. 1958

Laycock was a miniature painter, who studied in London and Paris and later exhibited at Laycock exhibited with the Royal Art Society, Sydney's Women Painters Exhibition, and London's Society of Women Artists' Exhibition.

Miniature painter, studied art in London at the Hetherly Art School and in Paris under Senor Seniorina. In 1908 she had a studio in the Strand Arcade, Sydney, where she painted miniatures on commission. By 1920 she had married the grazier Darcy Osborne and moved to his property, Benbuckley, at Mudgee, New South Wales. Laycock exhibited with the Royal Art Society in 1903-22, at the Women Painters Exhibition at Sydney in 1919, and at the Society of Women Artists’ Exhibition in London in 1937.

Laycock was also involved in a case where her miniature portraits of historical figures were sold as (forgeries of) antique portraits, Daily Telegraph 28-29 November 1907. Works include The Sisters c.1916, w/c on ivory, AGNSW, purchased from RAS exhibition 1916 (cat. no. 122); (Study of a Head) c.1919, w/c on ivory purchased RAS Exhn 1919 (cat. 262); The Kiss c.1922, w/c on ivory purchased RAS Exhn 1922 (cat. 323); good watercolour portrait exhibited by Brian Corrie 1993, Melbourne. Flourished - fl. c.1907 - c.1937