Charles Vincent Lamb - Artist Info

About Charles Vincent Lamb

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    Charles Lamb RHA (1893-1964)

    The Irish landscape artist, portrait and figure painter Charles Lamb was born in County Armagh. He studied painting and life-drawing at night classes at Belfast School of Art, before winning a scholarship to the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin in 1917 where he came under the influence of Sean Keating. He began exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1919, and thereafter averaged about 4 paintings per show until his final years. The following year he painted his masterpiece Dancing At A Northern Crossroads.

    In 1922 Charles Lamb went to Connemara, settling in a remote Irish-speaking part of County Galway. In 1923 he was elected Associate of the Royal Hibernian Acade...

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