'The Omnibus' (1920s)
(The Shire Hall Gallery)
Mabel Frances Layng (1881-1937) was an English landscape and figure painter.
Layng was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, the eldest of two daughters of Alfred Edward Freestone Layng and Ada Mary Coates.
In 1902 Mabel Layng left to study at the St John's Wood Art School. She then went on to study under Frank Brangwyn at the London School of Art in Kensington between 1906 and 1908.
From 1914 until her death in 1937 she lived with her sister Ada in Ealing, earning a living as a professional artist.
