Background
Law was born at Crosshouse in Ayrshire, where his father was a miner and later a publican.
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Andrew Law
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Glasgow School of Artist
Career
Law rarely exhibited outside of the west of Scotland, but, during a long career based on private commissions, he produced a significant body of work. Law went to school in Kilmarnock and took evening classes at the Kilmarnock Academy. In 1896, Law was awarded a travelling scholarship and spent six months studying in Paris, where he took lessons from Robert Henri and attended classes at the Academie Delecluse.
Law returned to Kilmarnock and began a successful career accepting private portrait commissions.
Among these commissions was the full-length portrait of the football player Alan Morton, which still hangs in the Ibrox Stadium. Law was active in the Glasgow Art Club and also taught part-time at the Glasgow School of Art until his retirement in 1938.
Law exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy. His only one-man show was in 1958, and in later life, he continued to paint rural and street scenes around Kilmarnock.
A portrait painted by Law of his fellow Scot and artist Ancell Stronach was lost in the fire in the Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art on 23 May 2014.
