The Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

Location

Country: Other
City: other locations abroad

George Lambert, theatre scene and landscape painter, divided his career equally between the two professions. For most of his life he lived in Covent Garden. His early style of the 1720s is similar to that of John Wootton. However, his later classical landscapes earned him the accolade ‘the English Poussin’. Lambert painted the landscape backgrounds for William Hogarth’s paintings ‘The Pool of Bethesda’ and ‘The Good Samaritan’, made for St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (1736-37). In 1761 he was elected chairman of the newly founded Society of Artists of Great Britain. The Society received the Royal Seal on 26th January 1765 and just five days later Lambert died at his home in Covent Garden, leaving his possessions to his servant, Ann Terry.

Places

England, Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, North Yorkshire

Subjects

topography, landscape C18th, genre, tree, evening, sunset, dog, sheep, man, woman, house, abbey, ruin

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

George Lambert (c.1700 - 1765)

Title

The Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

Date

1753

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 116.00 cm, width: 130.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, April 1951

Inscription

br: G. Lambert / 1753

Provenance

Purchased from Appleby Bros., 1951

GAC number

1265