George Lambert (1700 – 1765)

• Was an English landscape artist and theatre scene painter.
• Lambert was born in Kent.
• Studied art under Warner Hassells and John Wootton.
• Many of his landscapes were finely engraved by François Vivares, James Mason, and others.
• Lambert obtained a great reputation as a scene-painter, working at for the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, in London.
• Lambert was a friend of William Hogarth and a member of the jovial society that met at 'Old Slaughter's' Tavern in St Martin's Lane.
• In 1755 he was one of the committee of artists who proposed a royal academy of arts in London.
• In 1765 he and other members seceded and formed the Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain, of which he was elected the first president.
• Lambert died on 30 November 1765 at his home on the Piazza in Covent Garden.
• His pupils included John Inigo Richards and John Collett.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Giles Hussey, Portrait of a landscape painter, possibly George Lambert, between 1740 and 1750.
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