Works: River in Rain, Summer Evening at Cheyne Walk (1871); Lament (1872); Pastoral (1873); Hop Gardens of England (1876); View from Don Saltero's (1877); Wet Moon—Old Battersea, Autumn Sun-*rise, Strayed, In the Valley (1878); Sun-*down, Old Battersea—Moonlight, Wet Moon, Morning Mist, 'Twixt Sun and Moon, Kent, Silver Mist, Golden Mist, Haunted Mill, Morning After (1879); Moonlight Pastoral, August Moon, Voice of the Cuckoo (1880); The Pool, Bardon Moors, Valley of Desolation, Wharfedale (1881); Blackdown—Surrey, Peach Blossom, Doone Valley, Storm Cloud, September, On Road to Monaco (1882). Mrs. Cecil (Constance) Lawson contributed to the Grosvenor Gallery in 1882 Provence Roses; in 1883 White Chrysanthemums, Poppies; in 1884 Almond Blossoms; and to the Royal Academy in 1884 Peonies, Chrysanthemums, Almond Blossoms.—E. W. Gosse, Memoir (London, 1883); Acad., June, 1882, 439; Athen., June, 1882, 770; Portfolio (1883), 185; Comyns Carr, Modern Landscape.
LAWSON, F. WILFRID, born in Shropshire,
England; contemporary. Elder
brother of Cecil Lawson. Genre painter;
began as a designer for periodicals, especially
The Graphic. Exhibits at Royal
Academy and Dudley Gallery. Has painted
a series of pictures illustrative of the
Children of the City. Works: Street Arabs
(1876); Imprisoned Spring (1877); Dawn
(1878); Jesus at the House of the Pharisee
(1881); A Day in the Country (1882);
A Midway Inn (1884).
LAY, OLIVER INGRAHAM, born in
New York in 1845. Portrait and genre
painter, pupil of Cooper Institute, National
Academy, and of Thomas Hicks in New
York. Elected an A.N.A. in 1876. Studio
in New York. Works: Window; Letter
(1877); Two Friends, J. H. Sherwood, New
York; Watching the Snow (1879). Portraits:
John Delafield, Winslow Homer, C.
C. Griswold, C. C. Colman, Miss Fidelia
Bridges (property of the National Academy,
New York); Miss Genevieve Ward (1882);
Edwin Booth as Hamlet (1883).
LAYNAUD, ERNEST, born in Paris;
contemporary. Landscape painter, son and
pupil of François Louis Laynaud. Medal,
3d class, 1883. Works: Quai of Tréport,
View at Tréport Harbor (1878); Rocks of
Tréport, Harbor of Tréport (1879); Fish
Market, ib. (1881); Canal Saint-Martin, Tréport
at Low Tide (1882); do. (1883); The
Seine at La Briche, Quai Corner at Honfleur
(1884); Bassin de la Lieutenance, ib.
(1885).
LAYNAUD, FRANÇOIS LOUIS, born in
Paris; contemporary. History, genre, and
portrait painter, pupil of Picot. Works:
Misery (1835); Male Portrait (1836), Rouen
Museum; Miracle of Loaves and Fishes
(1842); Bishop Saint Brice giving Benediction
at Tours (1844), Ministry of Interior,
Paris; Saint Hilaire Bishop of Poitiers re-*entering
his Diocese after long Absence
(1846), ib.; St. Louis vowing to go to the
Holy Land (1864), Town-hall, Pontoise.—Bellier,
i. 934.
LAYRAUD, (FORTUNÉ) JOSEPH
(SÉRAPHIN), born at Laroche-sur-Bois
(Drôme), Oct. 13, 1834. History and portrait
painter, pupil of Loubon and Cogniet
and of École des Beaux Arts. Second prix
de Rome, 1850; first, 1863; Medal, 2d
class, 1872. Works: Sophocles accused by
his Sons (1850); Joseph revealing himself
to his Brethren (1863); Brigands and Captives
(1872), British Museum; Marsyas
(1872), Épinal Museum; Death of Agrippina,
Diogenes (1881); Ines de Castro
(1882); St. Sebastian (1883); Drove of Bulls
at Porta del Popolo—Rome (1885).—Bellier,
i. 934.
LAZARUS, RAISING OF, Garofalo, Ferrara
Gallery; wood, H. 8 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. 7
in. An excellent composition, with figures
in two groups, accessories of landscape, and
a sepulchre cut in the rock. Painted in
1534 for S. Francesco, Ferrara.—Vasari, ed.
Mil., vi. 463; Ape italiana delle Belle Arti
(Rome), i. 36.
