Print of ‘Lively Lady’ donated to the Institute


Elly Bryant, a long-standing member of the IIMS team working in the finance department, was handed a print of Lively Lady by her parents following a house clear out and they decided to donate it to IIMS.


The picture is now hanging in pride of place on the stairway up to the office and we are grateful to Elly and her family for this kind donation.


‘Lively Lady’ was painted by Laurence Bagley (1922 – 1983), an artist born locally in Southampton, United Kingdom. He was best known for his marine and aviation paintings, but he was also a writer and illustrator. This print proved to be his most financially successful work during his career.


Throughout the 1970’s Laurence painted dozens of impressions of Vosper Thornycroft warships, hovercraft and weapon systems which were widely reproduced in the company’s sales literature.


It is said that he had been a keen yachtsman, sailing mainly with an old friend who owned an 8-ton McGruer sloop. He spent many a sailing weekend away, sometimes crossing the channel to Cherbourg. Rumour has it though, that he was not an ideal crew as he was always grabbing for his sketchbook! Eventually Laurence bought his own yacht, a 6-ton Hillyard “Fjord” which he kept on the River Hamble.


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