Wooded Landscape with Gypsies: Evening

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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

Subjects

landscape C18th, genre, tree, dog, forest, woodland, man, path, footbridge

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

George Lambert (c.1700 - 1765)

Title

Wooded Landscape with Gypsies: Evening

Date

1745

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 106.50 cm, width: 119.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leggatt Bros, November 1958

Inscription

br: G. Lambert / 1745

Provenance

Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel A. Heywood-Lonsdale of Shavington, Market Drayton; sold through Christie's, London, on 24 October 1958 (Lot 86), for 84.0.0; from which sale purchased by Leggatt on behalf of the Ministry of Works

GAC number

4756