George Cochran Lambdin (1830–1896) was an American Victorian artist, best known for his paintings of flowers.February 1, 1896 obituary, ''The Germantown Guide'' from FindAGrave.George C. Lambdin biography from Questroyal Fine Arts /ref>Mark D. Mitchell, 'Rose Fever: The Paintings of George Cochran Lambdin', in '' The Antiques Magazine'' /ref>
Biography
The son of portrait painter
James Lambdin
James Reid Lambdin (May 10, 1807 – 1889) was an American born artist, famous for many of his portraits of U.S. Presidents. Barratt C. R., & Zabar, L., ''American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art'' (New Haven: Yale Universi ...
, he was born on January 6, 1830, in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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. He studied at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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American Civil War
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, he worked with the
United States Sanitary Commission
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, 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
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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
chromolithograph
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s 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.
Gallery
File:WLA ima The Consecration.jpg, ''The Consecration'' (1865),
Indianapolis Museum of Art
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File:At the Front by George Cochran Lambdin, 1866.jpg, ''At the Front'' (1866),
Detroit Institute of Arts
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File:George Cochran Lambdin - Still Life.jpg, ''Still Life'' (1877),
St. Louis Art Museum
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