The Rev J Lakes of Liskeard was awarded a Second Bronze Medal for Entrapped Jay and Robin (watercolour, Amateur section) at the 1835 Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Exhibition.
Work by this artist is included in the University College Falmouth art collection.
Included here not because of a special connection to Cornwall, but because of his subject matter: a portrait of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the quintessential Cornishman. Lamb's oil on canvas portrait (107 x 81) of Q is in the collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.
Lambe appears to have been a pupil of the SIMPSON SCHOOL OF PAINTING, who exhibited portraits in black and white at the St Ives Show Day in 1924.
The potter, Nigel Lambert, took up his studies in the ceramic arts at Cornwall College, Pool. From there he worked with Roger Cockram in North Devon before creating his own workshop in Bristol.
He is now well known for his decorated earthenware pots and is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association. His home base currently is in the Forest of Dean.
Stephen Lambert is based in St Breward, Cornwall. He has illustrated several children's picture books.
Rachel Lambert's thought-provoking works are influenced by botanical imagery.
Lambourn was born in London and studied at Goldsmith's College and the RA Schools between 1921-26. In 1936, when on a tour of the West Country, he discovered the fishing village of Mousehole near Penzance, and when a disused school came up for sale he bought it and converted it into his studio home.
The story of his life during WWII, and the happenstance creation of the Army Decorating Section by Lambourn, then his return to the school-turned-theatre (Merlin Theatre, Mousehole) through which he involved the community in the works of Shakespeare, is told in 100 Years in Newlyn. From 1970, he and his family moved to St Just. John Halkes, NAG curator, wrote the biographical monograph, George Lambourn (1900-1977) to accompany a celebratory exhibition of the artist's paintings and drawings held at the Newlyn Art Gallery in 1982.
NAG exhibitors. See Kate WESTRUP, Emily WESTRUP & Ella Louise NAPER.
Born in Hong Kong, Clara Lancaster trained in Brussels, at the Byam Shaw School, and also with Algernon Mayow TALMAGE in St Ives.
Belinda Landini studied Fine Art at Cardiff College of Art, then moved to Leeds, where she worked and exhibited for the next ten years. In 2001 she completed a post-graduate degree in Art Therapy, and worked in mental health. She moved to Cornwall in 2005, and has worked at Drym Valley Day Centre for five years, encouraging others to find their own creative skills.
The daughter of Eliza Tudor LANE, Cecil painted mainly flowers and landscapes in watercolour. A founder member of STISA, Cecil was initially an Associate member, becoming a Full member in 1932. However, with the increase in quality of the membership and her art never being particularly strong, she seems to have reverted to Associate, being appointed to the Committee as a Representative of Associate members.
Eliza Lane's first show was with the RCPS in 1886, and she later went on to study under Stanhope FORBES.
A watercolourist, she specialised in sea paintings. In 1900 she exhibited and sold at NAG A Misty Morning along with Courtyard - San Gregoria, With the Summer Dawn and Boats in Harbour, and the following year Penzance Fishing Boats.
In 1902 she was living in 'The Tower House' at Boscastle, Cornwall. She married General Sir Herbert Edward Blumberg in the Camelford Registration District of Cornwall in September 1904. At NAG, in 1908 under the name of E Tudor LANE, she sold A Fair Weather Breeze. She and her husband retired to St Ives in the mid-1920s, becoming actively associated with the Art Colony there, although Eliza was by then an invalid.
She was, along with her daughter, Cecil de Wynter LANE, a founder member of STISA. Lady Blumberg is buried in the churchyard of the Parish church of St Uny at Lelant, Cornwall.
Though no biographical information is yet found for this artist, two portraits of distinguished Cornishmen, Davies Gilbert, PRS (1767-1839) and The Right Honourable Lord de Dunstanville (1757-1835) are part of the permanent collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.
Laura Lane is a ceramicist with a BA in Design. She says 'My work is an exploration of Cornwall's long history of site specific folklore, expressed through illustration and pattern, using functional home wares and plaques as a canvas.'
Having grown up in Cornwall, Lang was a student at Leonard John FULLER's St Ives School of Painting, and aware of a wood-carving heritage: ''Wood carving was a way of life practised by my forefathers in Bavaria and I too have learnt this craft from my father, Faust Emmanuel LANG. Their tools have been passed down to me...I endeavour to reveal the vitality and beauty to be found in nature - through the medium of wood.'
The Catholic Church in St Ives is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the patroness and name saint of St Ives, St Ia. The new Church was blessed on 21st September 1908 by Bishop Charles Graham, and solemnly opened with the celebration of Pontifical High Mass on 24th September 1908. The wooden statue of St Ia was carved by a parishioner, Faust Lang of Oberammergau, from a thick section of Austrian Oak found floating in St Ives Bay.
Faust Emanuel Lang was born in Oberammergau, Bavaria in 1887, the son of local wood carver Andreas Lang. The family decided to move to England in 1934. They initially lived in Mawgan Porth near Newquay in North Cornwall and Lang became a British citizen in 1938. In 1938 he also met a certain Harry Adams, a Scotsman on holiday in Mawgan Porth who had a connection with Wade Ceramics, who recommended Faust to the company. He was commissioned to carve a series of what were to become amongst the most beautiful and prestigious figurines produced by Wade, finished in the 'Copenhagen' style.
At the outbreak of WWII, Lang's brief connection with Wade ceased when all giftware production was halted at the Wade factories.After the war, Lang joined the thriving artist's colony in St Ives in 1950, and spent the rest of his life in England. He died in 1973 and is buried in St Ives.
Roy Lang from Truro, Cornwall won the 'Artist of the Year 2002' competition sponsored by the SAA, The Society of Art for All, for his painting titled Solomon Browne's Penultimate Light, a tribute to the crew of the Penlee Lifeboat and her crew who perished on the 19th December 1981. The Lifeboat crew were attempting a courageous rescue in hurricane force winds of the crew and passengers of the Union Star under the cliffs near Lamorna Cove, Cornwall.
Lang exhibits his works through a network of linked galleries, both on-line and in galleries around the country.
Una Lang is referenced by Tovey as exhibiting in St Ives from the Piazza Studios in the 1950s.
Robin Langford's sculptures are created using copper steam pipe which has been recovered from Cornish shipwrecks.
Anne Langley works from a studio in Little Trenarrett, an ancient hamlet on the edge of Bodmin moor. She obtained a Diploma from the Society of Botanical Artists in 2022.
Langley was a Birmingham-born artist (8 June 1852 GRO) who began attending evening classes at Birmingham School of Design at the age of ten, after which he was apprenticed for seven years to lithographer August Bierman, although he continued with his studies at the design school. Langley began to teach himself to paint, and first exhibited three water colours at the RBSA in 1873. He was awarded a two-year scholarship to study design at South Kensington School of Art (1873-75), married Clara Perkins, with whom he had four children, and was instrumental in forming the Birmingham Art Circle.
After a brief visit to Newlyn in 1880, Langley finally settled there in 1882, and is credited with being the earliest ‘pioneer’ of the Newlyn ‘colony’ of artists, certainly the first major artist to do so. He worked away from time to time, and due to disagreements with other artists left for London in disgust, but returned in 1893. After Clara died in 1895 he again attempted to move away, this time back to Birmingham, but again was to return.
He was Gold medallist at the Paris Salon in 1889 for a collection of four watercolours, and he exhibited again in Paris in 1909 from Penzance, and 1932 from London (2). At the Opening Exhibition of NAG he showed four works: The Old Campaigner (sold), The old, old story, A country lass and Tolpedn Penwith.He was honoured by the Uffizi Gallery, Florence who invited him to donate a self-portrait to the Medici Collection in 1895.
In 1897, he married Ethel Pengelly as his second wife, the couple having one more child.
The Cornish Magazine of 1898 used a print of Langley’s One Man One Vote to illustrate an article by Henry Lucy about the MP Leonard Courtney (later Lord Courtney of Penwith). It shows a man, probably a fisherman, staring into space in front of his fireplace, with a copy of the Cornishman newspaper crumpling to the floor. He produced a number of fine watercolours of the fisherfolk of Polperro.
Langley made visits to Holland in 1904 and 1905, and a trip to Belgium the following year. Though not providing him with much work that he could send to the RA, or other exhibiting venues for sale, he considered that the paintings he subsequently executed, with some influences of the Hague school of artists, were amongst his best work ever. His special subjects were the painting of fisherfolk and the real life issues of living, working and dying in fishing villages; he remained loyal to these themes until his death in Penzance on 21 March, 1922, age 69.
[See William WAINWRIGHT’s account in Hardie (2009) ‘The Art of Walter Langley’, a posthumous (1923) celebratory exploration of his watercolour artistry.]
A landscape painter who flourished between 1880 and 1920, and who because of his subject matter and signature on paintings as 'W Langley' has sometimes caused confusion - whether or not it was intended. At one point in his career he was actually gaoled for six months for attempting to pass off his work as that of Walter LANGLEY, and was told to cease and desist from the practice of signing his paintings in like fashion. He was no relation of Walter Langley, though he also came from Birmingham.
An artist with very little known about him apart from his having produced two works depicting West Penwith subjects, one of which is an etching.
An artist with particular interest in beam trawler activity in Newlyn, Cornwall (2011).
Beryl Langsworthy was born in Shropshire. She declined a place at Manchester School of Art in favour of remaining self-taught. Her affinity with animals led to commissions to paint many breeds of dogs, cats and horses. In 1988 Beryl Langsworthy moved to the Isles of Scilly where she developed the skill of creating free blown studio glass.
Her work has been exhibited widely in Cornwall and London.