Painting of the Week - George Lambert
View of a Manor House and Cottages
This stunning British Old Master landscape oil painting, with excellent provenance, is by George Lambert. Lambert was a pioneer of British landscape in art for its own sake. Painted in 1744, the painting is entitled View of a Manor House and Cottages in Elizabeth Einberg's 63rd volume of the Walpole Society 2001 and is described as follows:
In the foreground a road emerges from a wood to cross a ford and then leads up the hill to the right, towards a manor house seemingly built into the remains of a medieval or Tudor edifice. The main track, crowded with sheep and rustic figures, passes the massive square gateposts lower down the hill on the left. Further to the left is a thatched cottage with smoke coming out the chimney. In the distance is a wide coastal view. The main buildings, which are in the dead centre of the composition, represent almost certainly an as yet unidentified English view.
The colouring and detail in the trees and foliage are superb. This is an excellent Old Master oil painting by one of the all time great British landscape artists with extensive provenance.
Signed and dated 1744 lower left on rock in black.
Provenance. Elizabeth Einberg, “Catalogue Raisonnè of the works of George Lambert”
The Annual Volume of the Walpole Society, 2001 Vol. 63, page 149 no P1744, fig.71.
Antonacci Efrati Antichità Rome Gallery.
Burden sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 20-21, April 1938 (376 repr.)
Robert E. Peters, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, March 1975 (41 repr.)
Lit. Schnackenburg 1995, pp 83-84, cat. no.14 fig 13.
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