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.

Places

England, Devon, Drake's Island, Mount Edgecumbe, Plymouth Sound

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, seascape/coastal scene, smoke, island, shore, man, woman, cannon, path, ship

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720 - 1791)
Pierre Charles Canot (1710 - 1777)
Samuel Scott (c.1702 - 1772)
George Lambert (c.1700 - 1765)

Title

A View of Mount Edgcumbe taken from St. Nicholas’s Island

Date

1755

Medium

Coloured engraving

Dimensions

width: 58.80 cm, height: 38.30 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, December 1963

GAC number

6364