"Equestrian Portrait of a Boy" Oil on canvas, 1905.Wow.
Lots of his pictures are viewable on this retrospective site.
"A portrait of Lambert’s eldest son, Maurice, wearing a crimson coat and seated on a Shetland pony, together with a young nursemaid. Amy Lambert suggested that the nursemaid was initially employed to look after Maurice, but was subsequently co-opted as a model. The nursemaid did not mind posing for the composition, but objected to having to read Brer Rabbit out aloud to Maurice, and to Lambert correcting her as she did so." [via]Lambert was a ridiculously talented draughtsman. His innovative and sometimes eccentric compositons are often rescued by the sheer quality of his precise and muscular draughtmanship.
Lots of his pictures are viewable on this retrospective site.
"Portrait group" 1908
"Holiday in Essex" 1910
"The Sonnet" 1907
"Portrait group - the mother" 1907He also seems (although born in Russia) to be the very first Australian I have featured here!
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No Australians before Lambert? This is terrible! We have some of the most beautiful artists on earth, especially between 1880s and 1939.
I have just written up William Dobell, and invite you to examine his portraits. Also you will find the rather delicious Emanuel Phillips Fox. My next effort might be Grace Cossington Smith.
Love your blog
Hels
Arts and Architecture, mainly
I am still coming back to George Lambert, but my own writing this time concentrates on his later war work (which isn't nearly as painterly, by the way).
Thanks for the link to his earlier work,
Hels
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