Gerald Laing

[2] Laing was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 11 February 1936, a son of Maj. and Mrs. Gerald Ogilvie-Laing[3] He grew up during World War II and experienced the Battle of Britain as young boy.

[5] At the beginning of the 1960s, while still at Saint Martin's, Laing was introduced to artists in New York City, meeting Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Rosenquist and Robert Indiana.

On 19 February 2012 a bronze sculpture by Laing, Dreamer, was stolen from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

[10] In February 2014, Laing's Brigitte Bardot painting from 1963 work sold for £902,500 in an auction at Christie's in London, a record sum for the artist.

[4] They divorced in 1983 and in 1988, Laing was married to Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York by the Rev.

In 1968, Laing and his second wife found Kinkell Castle in the Black Isle of Ross and Cromarty,[15] " a Z-plan stronghold that was the former seat of the clan Mackenzie, ruinous and in the hands of local farmer Angus MacDonald."