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词条 George Washington Lambert
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

     War artist  Return to Australia 

  3. Personal life

  4. Gallery

  5. See also

  6. Notes

  7. References

  8. External links

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George Washington Thomas Lambert {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|ARA}} (13 September 1873 – 29 May 1930) was an Australian artist, known principally for portrait painting and as a war artist during the First World War.

Early life

Lambert was born in St Petersburg, Russia, the posthumous son of George Washington Lambert (1833 – 25 July 1873, in London) of Baltimore, Maryland. The younger Lambert's mother was Annie Matilda, née Firth, an Englishwoman. Mother and son soon moved to Württemberg, Germany, to be with Lambert's maternal grandfather. Lambert was educated at Kingston College, Yeovil, Somerset. The family, consisting of Lambert, his mother and three sisters, decided to emigrate to Australia. They arrived in Sydney aboard the Bengal on 20 January 1887.[1]

Career

Lambert began exhibiting his pictures at the Art Society and the Society of Artists, Sydney in 1894. Lambert began contributing pen-and-ink cartoons for The Bulletin in 1895 and began painting full-time in 1896.[1] Illustrations by Lambert formed part of the bush ballads of the Fair girls and gray horses (1898) and Hearts of gold (1903) anthologies of Scottish-Australian poet Will H. Ogilvie (1869–1963).

In 1899 he won the Wynne Prize with Across the Blacksoil Plains. He studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney until 1900. Later, he won a travelling scholarship for 150 pounds from the government of New South Wales. He spent a year in Paris before moving to London where he exhibited at the Royal Academy. Lambert was awarded a silver medal at an international exhibition for his painting The Sonnet in Barcelona in 1911. He was most known during this time as a portrait artist.

War artist

Lambert became an official Australian war artist in 1917 during the First World War. His painting Anzac, the landing 1915 of the landings on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey, is the largest painting at the Australian War Memorial collection. Lambert, as an honorary captain, travelled to Gallipoli in 1919 to make sketches for the painting.[1] Another noted work was A sergeant of the Light Horse (1920), painted in London after his travels in Palestine.[2]

During the war years, George Lambert spent much time in London, where it is suggested he was romantically involved with fellow artist Thea Proctor.

Return to Australia

Lambert returned to Australia in 1921, where he had success in Melbourne with a one man show at Fine Art Society gallery. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1922. He often visited the homestead of Colonel Granville Ryrie of the Australian Light Horse at Michelago, New South Wales and there painted The Squatter's Daughter and Michelago Landscape.

In the second annual Archibald Prize in 1922, now Australia's most prestigious art prize for portraiture, Lambert's work was disqualified as he had not been a resident in Australia for twelve months.[3] He submitted a self-portrait for the third year, competing with William Macleod who entered with the subject of The Bulletin cartoonist 'Hop' Hopkins.[4] In 1927 he won the Archibald Prize with his work titled Mrs Murdoch.

In November 1927 he was commissioned to create a statue of writer Henry Lawson; the work depicting Lawson in rough clothes accompanied by a swagman, a dog and a fence post was unveiled in The Domain, Sydney on 28 July 1931 by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game.[5]

Personal life

Lambert was the father of Maurice Lambert (1901–1964), a noted sculptor and associate of the Royal Academy, and Constant, the British composer and conductor, born in London in 1905, and the grandfather of Kit Lambert, manager of the rock group The Who.

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Lambert married Amelia Beatrice 'Amy' Absell (1872–1963) in 1900.

Lambert died on 29 May 1930 at Cobbitty, near Camden, New South Wales, and is buried in the Anglican section of South Head Cemetery.[1]

Gallery

See also

{{Portal|Biography}}Visual arts of Australia

Notes

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090653b.htm |title=Lambert, George Washington Thomas (1873 - 1930) |accessdate=2009-07-15 |author=Martin Terry |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9 |publisher=MUP |year=1983 |pages=649–650}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=A sergeant of the Light Horse|url=http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Lambert/Detail.cfm?IRN=162564|work=George W Lambert Retrospective|publisher=National Gallery of Australia|accessdate=4 May 2013}}
3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245836411 |title=Archibald Prize |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |issue=13,621 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 January 1923 |accessdate=24 February 2019 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234289803 |title=Gossip |newspaper=Smith's Weekly |volume=IV, |issue=46 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 January 1923 |accessdate=24 February 2019 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=George W. Lambert retrospective|url=http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Lambert/Detail.cfm?IRN=163409|publisher=National Gallery of Australia|accessdate=12 February 2014}}

References

  • {{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=George Washington|Last=Lambert|shortlink=0-dict-biogL.html#lambert1|accessdate=2009-07-15}}

External links

{{Commons category|George Washington Lambert}}
  • {{Art UK bio}}
  • Artist profile - Australian War Memorial
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070430071322/http://blog.awm.gov.au/lambert/ Lambert exhibition, Gallipoli and Palestine landscapes - Australian War Memorial]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070710233923/http://www.australianart.com.au/artists.php?ID=57 George Washington Lambert at Australian Art]
  • {{Find a Grave|8942585}}
  • Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
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