Laura Loudon

Laura Loudon ( Bennie; 13 March 1871 - 22 May 1945) was a Scottish painter. She won the Lauder Prize in 1939.

Personal life

Laura Jane Bennie was born in 1871 in Tradeston, Glasgow, into the family of James Bennie (c.1834–1884), a manager of an iron foundry, and Margaret Muir Smith (18 October 1837–4 November 1905), who got married on 6 October 1957 in Tradeston. Laura was one of their nine children.

Laura married John Loudon (born c. 1870) in 1897 in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. John was also an artist, and he became an Art Master in Hamilton Academy; and later became a Chief Inspector for Art in Scotland. They had two children. Their son John Alexander Loudon was born around 1904.

Art

Lara Loudon studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1888 to 1897.

In 1925 she was at 9 Cassilis Street in Ayr. She exhibited a Still Life at the RSA.

Death

She died on 22 May 1945 in Moulin near Pitlochry.

Works

In addition to the works listed above, her A Still Life of a Profusion of Red Flowers in Vases, and Still Life With Flowers are known.

Her Portrait Of A Blonde Little Girl, and A Wooded Hillside are also known.