George Cochran Lambdin
Renowned for Victorian floral paintings
George Cochran Lambdin was an American Victorian artist, best known for his paintings of flowers. The son of portrait painter James Reid Lambdin, he was born on January 6, 1830 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and exhibited there beginning in 1848. During the American Civil War, he worked with the United States Sanitary Commission, distributing medicines and bandages to troops in the field. He painted genre scenes of camp life, and domestic scenes that often included soldiers. He was in poor health, beginning in middle age, and settled in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. There, he concentrated on painting flowers, especially roses, for the last 25 years of his life. Many of these paintings were copied as chromolithographs and mass-produced. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1868, and was an academician of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He died in Germantown on January 28, 1896.
Artworks by this artist (26 total)
- The Consecration, 1861 1865
- Still Life with Roses and Fuchsia 1873
- Roses in a Chinese Vase 1872
- The Last Sleep circa 1858
- Azaleas and Roses 1878
- Tea Rose and Blush Roses 1877
- At The Front 1866
- Spring Blossoms 1875
- Roses 1872
- Roses 1878
- Calla Lilies 1878
- Vase of Flowers
- Still Life 1877
- Roses and Fuchsia 1878
- June Morning 1878
- Roses 1878
- The Amateur Circus 1869
- The Biddle Children Fishing On The Schuylkill 1869
- Pink and White Roses 1878
- Spray of Roses 1884