Jessie S. Laurie (exh. 1881)

Woman Seated in a Studio, possibly Thomas Lawrie & Sons, Glasgow

Oil on Canvas 54.5 x 47.5cm

Signed “Laurie”

The life of Jessie S. Laurie is sparsely described and no information exists to tell us how she became a painter, though she was living at 11 Percy Terrace, Glasgow in 1881. The same address as the art dealer William Duff Lawrie (1849-1909), whose father had worked as a decorator, before dealing in “high class pictures” as early as 1872.