Mabel Frances Layng (9 November 1881 – December 1937) was an English landscape and figure painter.
[1] Alfred Layng was widowed in 1883 and in March 1884 he took up the post of headmaster of King Edward VI School in Stafford, Staffordshire, taking his daughters with him.
[2] In 1902 Mabel Layng left Stafford to study at the St. John's Wood Art School.
[4] Further paintings were accepted by the Royal Academy: "Mars and Venus" (1920), "The Picnic" (1921), "The Workroom" (1922) and "Crossing the Road" (1928),[4] and her work was also exhibited during her lifetime at the Paris Salon, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Goupil Gallery, International Society, London Salon, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Walker's Galleries in London, Women's International Art Club and the Queen Street Gallery in London.
[5] After Layng's death, her sister organised a memorial exhibition of her oil paintings and watercolours, held at the Arlington Gallery, Old Bond Street, London in March 1938.