Laelia Armine Cockburn (23 March 1894 – 16 November 1969) was a Scottish painter, born in Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway. She won the Guthrie Award in 1925 with her work A Rough Lot For Sale.^[1]

Laelia Armine Cockburn was born in Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway. Her parents were John Cockburn (18 October 1858 - 22 November 1928) and Isabel Mary Dew (3 April 1864 - 21 July 1952). Laelia was one of their four children. She was the Great granddaughter of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn and on 26 April 1954 attended the opening of a commemorative plaque in Edinburgh commissioned by the Saltire Society.^[2]

While growing up at North Berwick, she played golf at the North Berwick Ladies Club.^[3]

She studied at the Lucy Kemp-Welch School at Bushey.^[4]

She was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1924.^[4]

She won the Guthrie Award in 1925 with her work A Rough Lot For Sale at the Royal Scottish Academy open exhibition in that year.^[1]

The 1925 Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts exhibition in the McLellan Galleries saw Cockburn exhibit Baby Blue Hare which was soon after sold.^[5]

At the 1929 RSW exhibition at the McLellan Galleries in Glasgow, Cockburn entered her work, the Aberdeen Press and Journal headlining 'Women shine at fine exhibition'.^[6] The Scotsman newspaper commented on Cockburn's fine watercolours of animals:^[7]

Miss Laelia A. Cockburn paints horses not only with knowledge and observation, but also with a sympathy which makes them remarkably eloquent and expressive and gives them a definite individuality. The same quality of sympathy is to be seen in her sketch of a couple of dogs, entitled Contemplative, in the second room.

It was reported by the Dundee Evening Telegraph that her work In the Shed had been sold.^[8]

In the 1940 Society of Scottish Artists exhibition in Edinburgh, Cockburn exhibited The Foal.^[9]

She exhibited three works at the 1943 RSW exhibition at the RSA Galleries in Edinburgh:- Pads, of a sporting dog; Little Friend, another dog study; and The Rubbing Post.^[10]

In the Scottish Society of Woman Artists exhibition of 1960, Cockburn exhibited a seascape Rising Tide.^[11]

She died on 16 November 1969, in the St. Andrews Convent care home, in Hawick.^[12]

She normally signed her work 'LAC'.^[13][14]