Miss Mabel Inez Laws
Born 1871 (Circa)
Active: 1896 - 1901
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, designer
Born at Thorpe le Soken, Essex. With her fellow student and future business partner, Hannah Hunt, she designed and modelled two large panels of 'Helios and the Four Winds' for the Sun Fire Insurance building in Park Row (1894).
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1898
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1896
'Alderman J. Hepworth'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
Multiple works
Institutional and Business Connections
Student at Leeds College of Art
1892 (Circa) - 1894 (Circa)
Student of Edward Caldwell Bruce, possibly went on to teach c.1897-8
Traded as Hunt & Laws
1901 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Partner to Hannah Hunt
The women are described as partners in the Census Returns of 1901 with Hunt (the older of the two) as the head of household
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor, Designer etc.' working at home on own account
Sources
Behind the Mosaic: one hundred years of art education
2003
p. 19
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1896
1896
Cat. No. 560b, pp. 50, 77
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. Nos. 805, 824, pp. 75, 77, 101
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1898
1898
Cat. No. 258, p. 29
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 4239; Folio: 137; Page: 22.
Citing this record
'Miss Mabel Inez Laws', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1207237429, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
