Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James Lambdin became a skilled mid-19th century portrait painter of prominent persons including politicians and U.S. Presidents Lincoln and Grant. He also did... Read full biography
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James Lambdin became a skilled mid-19th century portrait painter of prominent persons including politicians and U.S. Presidents Lincoln and Grant. He also did portraits of soldiers including Arkansas writer Charles Fenton Mercer Noland in his military uniform. At... Read full biography
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James Lambdin became a skilled mid-19th century portrait painter of prominent persons including politicians and U.S. Presidents Lincoln and Grant. He also did portraits of soldiers including Arkansas writer Charles Fenton Mercer Noland in his military uniform. At age 16, Lambdin studied in Philadelphia with miniaturist Edward Miles and then for three years with Thomas Sully. In 1826, he returned to Pittsburgh to become a portrait painter, and opened a museum... Read full biography
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James Lambdin became a skilled mid-19th century portrait painter of prominent persons including politicians and U.S. Presidents Lincoln and Grant. He also did portraits of soldiers including Arkansas writer Charles Fenton Mercer Noland in his military uniform. At age 16, Lambdin studied in Philadelphia with miniaturist Edward Miles and then for three years with Thomas Sully. In 1826, he returned to Pittsburgh to become a portrait painter, and opened a museum and art gallery patterned after that of Charles Willson Peale in Philadelphia. Faced with diminished interest in his portraits and the museum, he moved to Louisville, Kentucky for 5 years and from there, traveled in the South including to Arkansas for... Read full biography
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James Lambdin became a skilled mid-19th century portrait painter of prominent persons including politicians and U.S. Presidents Lincoln and Grant. He also did portraits of soldiers including Arkansas writer Charles Fenton Mercer Noland in his military uniform. At age 16, Lambdin studied in Philadelphia with miniaturist Edward Miles and then for three years with Thomas Sully. In 1826, he returned to Pittsburgh to become a portrait painter, and opened a museum and art gallery patterned after that of Charles Willson Peale in Philadelphia. Faced with diminished interest in his portraits and the museum, he moved to Louisville, Kentucky for 5 years and from there, traveled in the South including to Arkansas for portrait commissions. In 1837, he opened a studio in Philadelphia and worked there until his death in 1889. From 1845 to 1864, he was D... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (38)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
301 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
Facing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy
1992
Danly, Susan
104 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
A Gallery of Presidents
1979
Pachter, Marc
95 pages
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons
1970
Bolton, Theodore
111 pages
A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans
1969
Stewart, Robert G
93 pages
This New Man A Discourse in Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Townsend, Benjamin (others)
217 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
Portraits In the University of Pennsylvania
1940
Addison, Agnes (editor)
67 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
The Adventures of an Illustrator Mostly in Following His Authors in America & Europe
1925
Pennell, Joseph
372 pages
Notes on American Artists 1754-1820 Portraits & Sculpture in New York Hist Society
1922
Kelby, William
80 pages (color)
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)