A Rest for the Cow Herd
JAMES LAMBERT OF LEWIS (1725-1788)
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Dimensions 42.50inch wide 30.00inch high (107.95 cm wide 76.20 cm high) 49.75inch framed width 37.50inch framed height (126.36 cm framed width 95.25 cm framed height) |
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Description A Rest for the Cow Herd JAMES LAMBERT OF LEWIS |
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Stock no.
D64909
Period
1725
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Literature D64909 A REST FOR THE COW HERD JAMES LAMBERT OF LEWIS 1725 –1788 Oil on canvas 30 x 42 ½ inches Framed size 37 1/2 x 49 3/4 inches James Lambert was born in Eastbourne and baptized at Willingdon on 29 December 1725. He was the son of James Lambert, flax dresser of Lewis and Susannah (nee Bray). Lambert became a painter of portraits and landscapes and moved to Lewis early in his life. He was locally valued and became known as ‘Lambert of Lewis’. He was a teacher of music and painting. His work closely resembled that of the three Smith brothers of Chichester. Views of the beautiful inland country of Sussex, seldom far from Lewis, though he painted Devon in 1762, but in Lamberts work nearly always enlivened by sheep or cattle, of which he was a professional portraitist, much employed by the local agriculturists. Occasionally, like the Smiths again, he gave a classical turn to his landscapes, when invented turrets and Italian crags would loom over the unmistakable Sussex countryside and farmsteads beneath. He married Mary Winton at Stopham on 29 April 1760. Lambert never visited London but sent his works annually to the Galleries, exhibiting 17 works at the Incorporated Society of Artists, 30 at the Free Society of Artists, 7 at the Royal Academy. Three of his paintings were engraved. James Lambert died on 7 December 1788 after a long illness and is buried at St John-sub-Castro, Lewis. A drawing, and many architectural drafts of Hurstmonceux are in the Victoria & Albert Museum. There is a self-portrait of him in the Lewis Archaeological Museum and a painting by him in the National Gallery. Bibl: British Landscape Painters – M.H Grant Portrait painters in Britain – B. Stewart & M. Cutten |
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