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Biography
George Washington Thomas Lambert [1] (1873-1930), artist, was born on 13 September 1873 at St Petersburg in Russia the fourth child and posthumous son of George Washington Lambert, an American railway engineer, and his English wife Annie Matilda, née Firth. Soon after his birth the family moved to Württemberg, Germany, with his maternal grandfather, and then to England where George was educated at Kingston College, Yeovil, Somerset.
The family decided to migrate and George, reaching Sydney with his mother and three sisters in the Bengal on 20 January 1887, soon went to Eurobla, near Warren, a sheep-station owned by his great-uncle Robert Firth.
After eight months Lambert returned to Sydney to work as a clerk with W. and A. McArthur & Co., softgoods merchants, and in 1889-91 in the Shipping Master's Office. He attended night classes conducted by Julian Ashton for the Art Society of New South Wales but returned to the country and worked as a station-hand for about two years. These two relatively brief experiences of bush life gave him an enduring love for horses and rural themes. . . . more . . adb.anu.edu
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. . . . . On the outbreak of World War I Lambert, unable to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force in London, joined a Voluntary Training Corps, became a divisional works officer and supervised timber-getting in Wales. In December 1917 he was appointed an official war artist, AIF, with the honorary rank of lieutenant, and commissioned to execute twenty-five sketches and to paint The Charge of the Light Horse at Beersheba on 31 October 1917.
He arrived at Alexandria, Egypt, in January 1918. Despite contracting malaria, he embarked for Marseilles, France, in May with over 130 sketches, many of which were exhibited later that year at the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists' War and Peace Exhibition.
In January 1919, as honorary captain, he visited Gallipoli on the historical mission with Bean, who described 'Lambert, with the golden beard, the hat, the cloak, the spurs, the gait, the laugh and the conviviality of a cavalier'. He also noted that Lambert 'was, I think, more sensitive than the rest of us to the tragedy — or at any rate the horror — of Anzac'. Lambert impressed on Bean that he wanted 'a clear military “operation order” setting out the work to be done'. . . . . .
- Australian official war artists 1916-1918 The group portrait includes
the official War Artists; by . George Coates (1920)
- George Lambert - Art Tree works
- Classic Australian Folklore 14 - Legends of War Tree
- AWM Media : 17 photos of Lambert at work
He is also remembered for having won the Archibald Prize with his work titled Mrs Murdoch in 1927.
George Lambert married Amelia Beatrice 'Amy' Absell in 1900. Their children were Maurice Prosper Lambert (1901–1964), a noted sculptor and associate of the Royal Academy, and Leonard Constant Lambert, the noted British composer and conductor, who was born in London in 1905. Kit Lambert (1935–1981), who was manager of the rock group The Who, was their grandchild.
Lambert died on 29 May 1930 at Cobbitty, near Camden, New South Wales, and is buried in the Anglican section of South Head Cemetery
Sources
- ↑ Martin Terry, Lambert, George Washington (1873–1930), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 19 December 2018.
- Find a Grave, database and images accessed 25 September 2022, memorial page for George Lambert (13 Sep 1873–28 May 1930), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #25514436, citing South Head Cemetery, Vaucluse, Waverley Council, New South Wales, Australia; Maintained by Find a Grave .
- George Lambert—Famous Artist's Sudden Death from the Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938) of Wednesday 4 June 1930, Page 15. first accessed on TROVE on the 25th of September, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/160632269?
- Prominent Personalities GEORGE LAMBERT, A.R.A. as published in the Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939) of Thursday 14 July 1927, Page 17. first accessed on TROVE on the 25th of September, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146649028?
- GEORGE LAMBERT from The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) of Friday 30 May 1930, Page 6. first accessed on TROVE on the 25th of September, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244867634?
- BELIEVED IN BREVITY from the Daily Pictorial (Sydney, NSW : 1930 - 1931) of Tuesday 26 August 1930, Page 20. first accessed on TROVE on the 25th of September, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246139079?
- George W Lambert: Mrs Murdoch an oil on canvas measuring 61 x 51 cm Winner of the Archibald Prize 1927 from the ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. first accessed 25th of September, 2022.
