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1830 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1896 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for: Civil War, child and young women genre painting, floral still life.
George Cochran Lambdin remains most known for his skill with floral paintings, especially roses from his own garden. However, during his lifetime, he was recognized for his sentimental genre subjects... Read full biography
George Cochran Lambdin remains most known for his skill with floral paintings, especially roses from his own garden. However, during his lifetime, he was recognized for his sentimental genre subjects of which one of his most famous was The Dead Wife, completed in 1860. Its popularity, with the... Read full biography
George Cochran Lambdin remains most known for his skill with floral paintings, especially roses from his own garden. However, during his lifetime, he was recognized for his sentimental genre subjects of which one of his most famous was The Dead Wife, completed in 1860. Its popularity, with the bereaved husband holding the hand of his dead wife, received special recognition when it was exhibited in the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris*. Other genre subjects were from the American Civil War,... Read full biography
George Cochran Lambdin remains most known for his skill with floral paintings, especially roses from his own garden. However, during his lifetime, he was recognized for his sentimental genre subjects of which one of his most famous was The Dead Wife, completed in 1860. Its popularity, with the bereaved husband holding the hand of his dead wife, received special recognition when it was exhibited in the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris*. Other genre subjects were from the American Civil War, resulting from his travels with the Union Army. Lambkin also painted many portraits of Philadelphia women, usually accompanied by roses whose hues matched the complexion of the subject. Lambdin was born in 1830 in Pittsburgh, the son of James Reid... Read full biography
George Cochran Lambdin remains most known for his skill with floral paintings, especially roses from his own garden. However, during his lifetime, he was recognized for his sentimental genre subjects of which one of his most famous was The Dead Wife, completed in 1860. Its popularity, with the bereaved husband holding the hand of his dead wife, received special recognition when it was exhibited in the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris*. Other genre subjects were from the American Civil War, resulting from his travels with the Union Army. Lambkin also painted many portraits of Philadelphia women, usually accompanied by roses whose hues matched the complexion of the subject. Lambdin was born in 1830 in Pittsburgh, the son of James Reid Lambdin, a successful portraitist from whom he received his early artistic training. In 1838, when he was eight, he moved with his f... Read full biography
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About George Lambdin: Keywords
Keywords (38)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Pre-Raphaelite Influenced
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
- •Female Face and Figure
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Germany Before 1900
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Artists Fund Society
- •Boston Art Club
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art School
- •German Academies Before 1900
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr. Collection
Added Description
- •Artist Has Artist Family Members
- •Genre Specialty
- •Portrait Specialty
- •Still Life Specialty
- •Tenth Street Studio Building Resident, New York
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts