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John Lavery was an Irish Painter best known for his portraits and wartime depictions. He was a student at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1870s and was a friend of GSA Director Fra Newbery.

Frederick Craik Stewart was born in Gourock, Renfrewshire on 16th November 1894, one of four sons of Mary Craik Stewart (nee Stormouth) and George Andrew Stewart, a metal storeman. The 1901 and 1911 censuses show the family lived in Govanhill, Glasgow. Stewart attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1915 as a day student of drawing and painting and received the Highland Society bursary of £10. The School's records show that he lived in Langside, Glasgow during this time. Stewart served in the First World War, as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery from May 1917. Stewart is commemorated on the School's First World War Roll of Honour and according to this, Stewart served as Captain in the Royal Field Artillery. His older brother, Kenneth, also served in the war, in the 3/7th battalion, Scottish Rifles. After the war, Stewart became a teacher of drawing and married Janette Grace Daly, also a teacher of drawing, in Govanhill in 1924. According to the Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J M McEwan, between 1923 and 1931 Stewart exhibited his work at The Royal Scottish Academy and The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He lived in Edinburgh after 1926. He wrote a book called Lino Cutting for Schools in 1934 as F Craik Stewart. Stewart died in 1935 and his wife died in 1979, aged 82.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, The Gazette: http://www.thegazette.co.uk, Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk, "Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture" by Peter J M McEwan.

Andrew Law attended the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) from 1889–1896 and then spent a year in Paris at the Academie Delacluse. He was appointed a member of the drawing and painting department at the GSA in 1910 and remained on the teaching staff until his retirement in 1938.

Frances Law studied at GSA and graduated in 1980. She modelled in the 1978 fashion show.

She had been a practising artist since graduation and exhibits across the world. She has also taught at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and Perth College Department of Contemporary Arts Practice.

Source: Frances Law website http://www.franceslaw.co.uk/cv.php

An aprentice lithographic engraver, Law attended the GSA from 1890 to 1892. His address given as 244 Buchanan Street during his first year of study, then 123 Albert Street. In 1891, he won a Haldane bursary of fifteen shillings and sixpence.

Designer silversmith Rebecca Lawley studied silversmithing at Sheffield Hallam University graduating with a BA (hons) in 3D Metalwork and Jewellery in 1996. Based in the North West, she regularly exhibits her work at national venues including Goldsmiths’ Fair, the Festival of Silver and the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair. Rebecca cites her design influences as mid twentieth century design, especially Lucienne Day, and Scandinavian design.

Christopher Lawrence was born in 1936 and is Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. He is based in Essex. He decided that he wanted to become a silversmith at the age of 13 after paying a visit to a silver factory as a boy scout. His father built him a workshop at the bottom of the family garden for him to learn his skills in and he then went on to attend the Central School of Arts in London. He was apprenticed to C J Vander as a tray maker and flat hammer man at the age of 15. At the age of 21, Lawrence worked at R E Stone alongside a number of reputed craftsmen. He stayed there for two years and learned how to hand raise with a hammer. He then spent a decade working as Gerald Benney’s workshop manager before setting up his own workshop in the late 1960s. Lawrence is a member of the institute of Professional Goldsmiths and is an expert at hand-raising.

Lilian (Lin) Lawrence (nee Muir) graduated from The Glasgow School of Art with a Diploma in Drawing and Painting in 1947. She was the daughter of Mr Malcom Muir, a teacher in the Mathematics Department of the High School of Glasgow from 1922-40, who later became Headmaster of Dinard Street.

Her interest lay with fashion design and make up supervision. She became a fashion artist in the early days of television and worked for ATV in London and then for Granada television in Manchester in the 1960s and was involved with some of the earliest Coronation Street productions. She was also involved with make up and the production of Orpheus in the underworld at the Sadler Wells theatre in London around 1960 and subsequently other classical plays.

Allan James Lawrie was born on 10th September 1887 in Lanarkshire, the middle of three sons of Julie Pricilla (nee Edwards), daughter of a farmer from the south of England and Frank, a successful commercial agent. The family lived at Hillside House, a large house in Bothwell. Between 1905 and 1910, Lawrie studied architecture at The Glasgow School of Art . Before 1909, he worked as an architectural draughtsman with Henry Edward Clifford and after 1909, with the architectural practice Clifford and Lunan. During WW1, Lawrie served as Captain with the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 6th Battalion (Terratorials). He was most likely transferred to the 23rd Brigade 8th Division in March 1915 which took part in significant offensives on the Western Front including the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and the Battle of Aubers in the spring of 1915. Lawrie died on 16th May 1915 and is buried at Rue du Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Pas de Calais. Allan J. Lawrie is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; CWGC: http://www.cwgc.org; The Long Trail: http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk; The National Archives: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk

A Joseph Lawson is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour, though no Joseph Lawson is listed in The Glasgow School of Art's student registers.

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Alexander Leckie studied ceramics at The Glasgow School of Art before moving to Australia in 1955. In 1956, he started teaching a new pottery course at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts. In 1962, Leckie stopped teaching and worked full-time as a potter in his own studio, before returning to Scotland in 1966 to take up a position as senior lecturer at The Glasgow School of Art, where he remained for twenty years.

Jiyoon Lee (b. 1992, South Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores diverse materials related to somatic experiences in the digital sphere. The Digital Age has made a significant impact on organic, physically present, human social interaction. Using autobiographical research on this social phenomenon, she reflects upon her own daily experience with digital screen-based communication, social behaviour and cognition in her art practice. Her artwork is mainly presented through the mediums of video/photography

Rosanna Lee was a GSA Fine Art student, graduating in 2015.

Born in Korea where he first studied precious metal processing, Lee later attended Camberwell College of Arts, London, where he won a Goldsmiths’ Company award for a piece now in the collection of the V&A museum. In London he worked for a while as an assistant to the sculptor, Anthony Gormley.
Lee's 'Silver moon Jar' of 2008 first brought him to prominence. Based in London, he now exhibits worldwide, taking his solo show, 'Flow' to Seoul in 2021.

Before moving to London to study, Lee majored in precious metal processing at an industrial high school in Korea and then took a job at a small gold and silver craft workshop named “Uno Silverware” in Myeong-dong, central Seoul. In the 1990s, the underground shopping mall near Shinsegae Department Store was crowded with such workshops and jewelry stores. Craftspeople in small workshops made their own jewelry and sold them to the jewelry shops. Lee was one of those craftspeople.

GSA student

French sculptor and medallist.

Leighton graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 1993. She was awarded the W O Hutchison Prize. She is now an artist and independent curator, and has a gallery in Berlin.

William Leiper was born in Glasgow on 21 May 1839, the son of William Leiper who had a private school in George Street, and Jane Mellis, or Myles.

Educated by his father and at Glasgow High School, he served his apprenticeship with Boucher & Cousland from '1855-6' to about 1859 when he went to London, working for John Loughborough Pearson and William White for approximately one year each. There he gained an entrée to the circle of Edward William Godwin and William Burges, who was later to propose him as FRIBA. He was briefly in Dublin supervising the building of Findlater Church for Andrew Heiton, before moving back to Glasgow to join Campbell Douglas & Stevenson.

Leiper's reputation was immediately established by winning the competition for Dowanhill Church, Glasgow in 1864. Its interior was remarkable for its very wide single-span roof, probably inspired by Godwin's at Northampton Town Hall, and for its glass and stencilled decoration by Daniel Cottier.

In some of his less expensive early domestic commissions he adopted the low-pitched roofs and compositional methods of Alexander Thomson, a friend in his early years, notably at Bonnington (now Rhuarden), Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, and Castlepark, Lanark, which has an unusual combination of Swiss and Anglo Japanese elements.

By 1869 he had developed his own Frenchified version of Scottish baronial with lettered and sculptured towers and turrets at the compactly-composed Colearn, Perthshire, remarkable for its high quality aesthetic movement woodwork, Cottier stained glass and Anglo-Japanese tiles by W B Simpson. Cairndhu, Helensburgh (1871) also had lavish Anglo-Japanese interiors of which a gold ceiling survives. Its exterior was a very early example of Francois Ier revival as was his Partick Burgh Hall, Glasgow, the following year, in which the French architect Alfred Chastel de Boinville may have been involved.

Leiper's commercial commissions were few but impressive. In 1889, as an architectural advertisement for their carpets, he built the polychrome red stone, brick and tile Venetian Gothic Templeton Factory on Glasgow Green and in 1893-94 the gargantuan Francois Ier Sun Insurance Building on Glasgow's West George Street on which William James Anderson and James Salmon Junior also worked and for which Birnie Rhind provided the sculpture, the French being sufficiently impressed to award him a Silver Medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1900.

From his earliest days Leiper was a skilful watercolourist and experimented with photography. In or about 1878 he took a career break to study painting. The reasons are not entirely clear and have been said to relate to disappointments in two limited competitions, , but his partner William Hunter McNab's statement that the City of Glasgow Bank Crash and consequent lack of business was the cause seems more probable. He studied in Paris at Julian's and then at R W Allan's with Arthur Melville. Although the worst years of the depression were still to come, the commission to design the interior of the Tsar's yacht Livadia in 1880 brought him home, his return to architectural practice being marked by his being admitted to FRIBA on 7 November 1881. His proposers were John Honeyman, Pearson and Burges. None of his paintings is in a public collection, but his numerous artist friendships, which included William McTaggart, brought him the commission to supervise the ambitious scheme of murals by The Glasgow Boys in the Banqueting Hall of Glasgow's City Chambers. Leiper was elected associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1891 and full member in 1896. From 1870 onward he exhibited works in watercolour and oil as well as architecture.

Leiper never married. After a protracted illness which resulted from serious blood poisoning in 1903, Leiper was compelled to retire completely in 1909 and his practice was continued by his partner William Hunter McNab, an accomplished designer in the same idiom. Leiper died of a cardiac haemorrhage at Helensburgh on 27 May 1916.

A portrait of him by Colin Hunter hangs in Aberdeen Art Gallery.

Liina Lember graduated in Interior Design from The Glasgow School of Art in 2016.

Company: The University of Glasgow.

Melanie Letore graduated from The Glasgow School of Art with a BA(Hons) Fine Art Photography in 2014. She has exhibited and undertaken residencies since her graduation.

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Jorge Lewinski (1921–2008) was a Polish–British photographer and soldier.

Born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), in 1921, Lewinski survived Russian occupation, internment, and forced labour in Siberia. After conscription into the Polish army, he served with Allied forces in South-west Asia. In 1942, he was sent to Britain to join the RAF, and afterwards settled.

In 1966, having developed a name for himself through the portraiture of artists, he became the pre-eminent photographer of artists in Britain. Subjects included Francis Bacon, LS Lowry, David Hockney, Henry Moore, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Gilbert and George, Barbara Hepworth, Barry Kay, William Pye, Peter Lanyon, Marc Vaux, Albert Irvin, Maggi Hambling, Kenneth Martin, Sean Scully, Bridget Riley, Reg Butler, Anthony Gormley, Julian Trevelyan, Sheila Fell, Allen Jones, Richard Wilson, and more.

Lewinski was Senior Lecturer at the London College of Printing from 1968 to 1982, and he was admired as both a teacher and a writer on photography.

He was married to Mayotte Magnus, the photographer, and lived between England and France.

Liberty of London (est.1875) is a luxury department store in the West End of London, England, known especially for its bold and recognisable printed fabrics.

Catriona Liggat was the recipient of the W O Hutchison prize, 2014

June Lillico studied at The Glasgow School of Art c.1970s-1980s, graduating with a First Class Degree in Textiles.
She teaches at Moray School of Art, as well as running the City and Guilds Certificate and Diploma in Design/Textiles.

Gwendoline Lindsay was a Silversmithing and Jewellery student at The Glasgow School of Art and graduated with a BA.

John Walter Lindsay was born in 1926. He attended Biggar High School which is where his art career began when the art teacher, Mr. Russell, convinced John's father that he should study art. After gaining his higher certificate John enrolled at the Normal College in New City Road for evening studies in painting, decorating and sign writing. In addition, he enrolled as a day pupil at the Glasgow School of Art in the General Couse. In 1945 his studies were interrupted when he was called up for military service. He resumed his studies in 1947 and left the school in 1949 with a Diploma of Art in Interior Design. He travelled round Europe following the award of the Haldane Travel Scholarship in 1950. He went on to work as an architect for Keppie Henderson Architects, Glasgow.

Peter Lindsay was born in Glasgow on 4th July 1892, one of three children of Jane and Peter Lindsay, a decorator. Lindsay, a lithographic artist, attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1908 to 1919 as an evening student studying drawing and painting, life drawing, design, and architecture. He received the Haldane evening bursary of £40 in 1913. During the First World War, Lindsay served as a gunner and signaller in the 129th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and a sapper in the Royal Engineers. Lindsay enlisted on 12th December 1915 and his regimental number was 190014. Lindsay received the British War Medal and Victory Medal. He worked as a munitions worker from 1916 to 1918. Lindsay is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

David John Ling studied architecture at The Glasgow School of Art from 1904 to 1914. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. He is listed on the School's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Kate Lingard studied Sculpture and Environmental Art at The Glasgow School of Art and graduated in 2019. In 2019 she won the Newbery Medal.

Marie Linton was a Silversmithing and Jewellery student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s. She won the Johnson Matthey Silver Award in 1977.

Rebecca Little worked in Glasgow for some time, but is now based in her native Bermuda. She is a graduate of UCCA Farnham (BA in 2006) and the Bishopsland Educational Trust (2006-7), where she was awarded a Gold Bursary. She has also been awarded prestigious bursaries from the Goldsmiths Company and The Goldsmiths Fair.

An established designer, she specialises in making intricate designs in silver and 18 carat yellow gold, simulating the texture and shimmer of woven fabrics. Little also introduces oxidised silver and stones to her pieces to create depth and contrast.

Graduate of the Glasgow School of Art (Silversmithing and Jewellery department), 2014. Winner of the Peter Wylie Davidson Purchase Prize, June 2014.

Alfred George Lochhead was born in Greenock on the 30th of December 1887, one of five children of Jemima Baldarton Lochhead, (née Dickie) and Robert Lochhead, a sugar merchant. Lochhead attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1906 to 1911 as a student of architecture whilst articled to Thomas Graham Abercrombie of Paisley. The Dictionary of Scottish Architects website provides a detailed account of Lochhead's life. He also studied at the West of Scotland Technical College under Charles Gourlay, Alexander McGibbon and Eugene Bourdon, as well as studying in Italy for three months. Lochhead joined Gourlay as an assistant in his evening classes from 1910 to 1913 as he was an outstanding student, earning several distinctions. Lochhead then worked for John Burnet & Son for over a year where he befriended James Shearer and Herbert Honeyman. Lochhead is noted to have emigrated to Canada to work for Ross & MacDonald and tried to enlist there for the Canadian Army when the war broke out but was not accepted for overseas service. Lochhead travelled to Canada on the Letitia ship on the 5th of April 1913 from Glasgow. He returned to Scotland where he joined to serve in the army as 2nd Lieutenant of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, later becoming Lieutenant. Lochhead heard that his friend Bourdon was serving within the French Army and wrote to him to meet but he did not turn up, as he had tragically been killed in battle at the Somme. Lochhead was later shot through both of his knees and was reported missing on the 13th of November 1916. He became a prisoner of war at Holzminden camp where a German military surgeon repaired his knees. As Lochhead was fluent in German, he became a well-known forger of identity records. Lochhead survived the war and was repatriated on the 18th of December 1918. He returned to work in an office in Glasgow. In 1919, he applied for admission as ARIBA under the War Exemption Scheme. He went on to work on war memorials and for the Scottish National War Memorial. In 1943, he married Helen Frances Wingate, a surgeon, in Ayr. In the 1950s Lochhead became unwell and retired from work. In the 1960s Lochhead suffered a stroke but made a full recovery. He later died of a heart attack in 1972. Lochhead is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour. He also appears on the Glasgow Institute of Architects Roll of Honour (Student).

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Sources: Ancestry: http://home.ancestry.co.uk/; Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk; The Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200297

Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead was born in 1947, in Motherwell, Lanarkshire. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art and taught art at schools in Glasgow and Bristol. She was Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University (1986-7) and Writer in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988. Her first collection of poems, Memo for Spring, was published in 1972 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Her poetry has been published in a number of collections including Penguin Modern Poets 4 (1995). In 2005, she was made Poet Laureate of Glasgow, and in 2011, became Scots Makar.

Malcolm Lochhead studied Embroidery and Weaving at The Glasgow School of Art between 1966-1970.

Ethel Lockerbie was born in 1891 and studied drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1909 to 1915. She served as a nurse in the First World War, and is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Alex Logan was born on 3rd August 1893. In 1912/13 and 1914/15 he attended evening classes in drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art while working as a draughtsman. He was killed in the First World War while served as a driver, possibly with the Army Service Corps. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Logan was a student at The Glasgow School of Art.

The London Sketch Club was founded on 1 April 1898 as a social club for artists working in the field of commercial graphic art, mainly for newspapers, periodicals and books. The founder members were Dudley Hardy, Phil May, Walter Fowler, Lance Thackeray, Cecil Aldin, W Sanders Fiske, Walter Churcher, Tom Browne and its first president George Charles Haité, Hon. Sec. Frederick Hamilton Jackson. Members of the Club have included John Hassall, H.M. Bateman, Salomon van Abbé, Terence Cuneo, Alfred Leete, and David Langdon.

James (Jim) Longmuir was an Interior Design student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1960s.

Established in Edinburgh in 1921, Lonsdale and Dutch specialise in the manufacture of hand-made architectural lanterns and light fittings in iron, copper, steel, lead and pewter, using traditional methods.

Lord was a GSA student, graduating from the Department of Product Design in 2015 having been awarded the School's Newbery Medal.