The Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

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    Location
    Country: Other
    City: other locations abroad
  • About the artist
    George Lambert, theatre scene and landscape painter, divided his career equally between the two professions. For most of his life he lived in Covent Garden. His early style of the 1720s is similar to that of John Wootton. However, his later classical landscapes earned him the accolade ‘the English Poussin’. Lambert painted the landscape backgrounds for William Hogarth’s paintings ‘The Pool of Bethesda’ and ‘The Good Samaritan’, made for St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (1736-37). In 1761 he was elected chairman of the newly founded Society of Artists of Great Britain. The Society received the Royal Seal on 26th January 1765 and just five days later Lambert died at his home in Covent Garden, leaving his possessions to his servant, Ann Terry.
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    Title
    The Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire
    Date
    1753
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 116.00 cm, width: 130.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Appleby Bros, April 1951
    Inscription
    br: G. Lambert / 1753
    Provenance
    Purchased from Appleby Bros., 1951
    GAC number
    1265