George Washington Lambert
Australian artist (1873–1930)
George Washington Thomas Lambert (13 September 1873 – 29 May 1930) was an Australian artist, known principally for portrait painting and for being 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 moved to Württemberg, Germany, to be with Lambert's maternal grandfather. Lambert attended Kingston College, Yeovil, Somerset. Lambert, his mother, and sister, moved to Australia, arriving in Sydney aboard the Bengal on 20 January 1887.
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. 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.
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