George washington lambert biography

George Washington Thomas Lambert ARA was an Australian artist, known principally for portrait painting and as a war artist during the First World War.
George Washington Thomas Lambert ARA (13 September 1873 – 29 May 1930) was an Australian artist, known principally for portrait painting and as a war artist.
George Washington Thomas Lambert (1873-1930), artist, was born on 13 September 1873 at St Petersburg, fourth child and posthumous son of George Washington.

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George W Lambert

1873, St Petersburg, Russia – 1930, Cobbity, NSW

George Washington Thomas Lambert, commonly known as GW Lambert, was born in 1873 in St Petersburg, Russia. His father, an American railway engineer, died shortly before his birth. Along with his mother and three elder brothers, Lambert moved soon after his birth to live with relatives in Germany. The family moved again to England in 1881, where Lambert underwent his schooling, before they finally immigrated to New South Wales in 1887.

After working for several years as a station hand on his great-uncle's property at Eurbola, Central New South Wales, Lambert became a grocer's clerk in Sydney. He enrolled in art classes run by Julian Ashton under the auspices of the Art Society of New South Wales and for some years shared a studio with Sydney Long. When in 1895 Julian Ashton began his own art school, the Academie Julian, Lambert followed him. Later in his career, Lambert is reputed to have been considered by Ashton as his greatest triumph as a teacher. In 1895 Lambert also began contributing drawings

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painter and illustrator, was an Anglo-American born in St Petersburg, Russia. He came to Sydney with his grandparents in 1887, aged 14, and worked on station properties around Nevertire, near Warren, NSW (chiefly at his uncle’s property?). While working as a cashier in a Sydney grocer’s shop, he studied art under Julian Ashton. He got his start as an artist when the Bulletin published some of his drawings in 1895-96; Cain or ('Biblical History’) (A back blocks version) , an original Bulletin drawing dated 1895, is in the Aer Gallery of Western Australia. Cartooning gave him an income that allowed him to devote his time fully to art. Some early bush cartoons are signed 'Geo. W Lambert/ Nevertire’ (e.g. 1896, ill. Rolfe, 99), others dated 1896-98 without an address are often of bush subjects, e.g. 'Boss cockie: “Give you a job? Why, you’re the fellow that set fire to my grass last season.”/ Traveller: “Yes, but surely you won’t let a man’s political opinions interfere?”’ 1896 (ill. Rolfe, 188). He also did

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George Washington Lambert Australian, 1873-1930

George Washington Thomas Lambert (1873-1930), an esteemed artist, was born on September 13, 1873, in St. Petersburg. He was the fourth child and posthumous son of George Washington Lambert, an American railway engineer, and Annie Matilda Lambert (née Firth), from England. Shortly after his birth, the family relocated to Württemberg, Germany, and then to England, where Lambert received his education at Kingston College, Yeovil, Somerset.

In January 1887, Lambert and his family arrived in Sydney aboard the Bengal, settling at Eurobla, a sheep station near Warren owned by his great-uncle Robert Firth. After eight months, Lambert moved back to Sydney to work as a clerk at W. and A. McArthur & Co., and later at the Shipping Master's Office from 1889 to 1891. During this time, he attended night classes taught by Julian Ashton at the Art Society of New South Wales. Following a period working as a station-hand in the bush, Lambert developed a lasting affinity for rural themes and horses. Upon returning to Sydney,