George Lambert (1700-1765)
Italianate Landscape
Oil on Canvas
In an 18th Century Carved and Gilded Frame
35 1/2 X 56

Provenance: Private Collection London

George Lambert divided his career equally between the theatre scene painting and landscape painting professions. For most of his life he lived in Covent Garden, London. His early style of the 1720s is similar to that of John Wootton. However, his later classical landscapes earned him the accolade ‘the father of English Landscape’ and ‘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.