Henry Lamb
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Military Cross
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, RA
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(21 June 1883 – 8 October 1960) was an Australian-born British painter. A follower of Augustus John
Augustus John
Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom....
, he was a founder member of the Camden Town Group
Camden Town Group
The Camden Town Group was a group of English Post-Impressionist artists active 1911-1913. They gathered frequently at the studio of painter Walter Sickert in the Camden Town area of London.-History:...
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Born in Adelaide
Adelaide
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, Australia, he was the son of Sir Horace Lamb
Horace Lamb
Sir Horace Lamb FRS was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics and Dynamical Theory of Sound...
FRS
Royal Society
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. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School
Manchester Grammar School
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, Manchester University Medical School and Guy's Hospital
Guy's Hospital
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in London
London
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, and studied painting at La Palette, Paris.
Lamb saw active service in the First World War in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was awarded the Military Cross
Military Cross
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A World war II official artist, he is noted for his unusual portraits, as examplified by his well-known picture of an elongated Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey
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. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
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in 1940 and was made a full Member in 1949. He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1942 and of the Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
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1944-51.
He married Lady Pansy Pakenham, daughter of the 5th Earl of Longford, in 1928, and they had a son and a daughter. Lamb died on 8 October 1960 at the Spiro Nursing Home, Salisbury, Wiltshire at the age of 77.
See also
- 1932 painting of Diana MitfordDiana MitfordDiana Mitford, Lady Mosley , was one of Britain's noted Mitford sisters. She was married first to Bryan Walter Guinness, heir to the barony of Moyne, and secondly to Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, of Ancoats, leader of the British Union of Fascists; her second marriage, in 1936, took place at the...
by Lamb, used as her cover illustration in the 1985 book, Loved OnesLoved Ones (book)Loved Ones is a 1985 collection of pen portraits by Diana Mitford. It was published by Sidgwick & Jackson. In 2008, three of the portraits were republished in the collection, The Pursuit of Laughter.-Synopsis:...
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External links
- Examples of Lamb's work at the Tate
- George Shaw on Henry Lamb