[1] He was the third of four sons of the painter Robert Ladbrooke, all of whom were artists to varying degrees, with Henry and John Berney achieving the most success.

Another brother, Robert, became a wood carver and gilder, picture cleaner, and drawing master.

[1] Ladbrooke died at his home in Norwich on 11 July 1879 and was buried at the nearby Rosary Cemetery.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1821 and 1822, and frequently at the British Institution and the Suffolk Street Gallery up to 1873.

[3] In 1820 he published a series of eight lithographs entitled Select Views in Norwich and its Environs, and helped his father in the production of 700 drawings and 677 lithographs for his five-volumes publication Views of the Churches of Norfolk.