Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
An arcadian landscape
- Pastels
- 19 ½ × 25 ⅞ inches · 495 × 657 mm
- Signed with initials and dated: G.L. / 1742, lower right, further inscribed on an old label verso: A Classical Landscape/by / Lambert / Lady Morton's Collection
Collections
- Elizabeth Buller-Yarde-Buller, Countess of Morton (1793-1849); her sale, Christie's, London, 27 April 1850, either lot 96, 97 or 110 (bt. Cooke);
- Mr and Mrs A J Harry, 1980;
- Private collection, 1987;
- Professor Ian Craft, to 2011.
Literature
- Marie-Luise Schnackenburg, Der Englische Landschaftmaler George Lambert, unpublished PhD Thesis, 1995, p. 145, cat no 105, fig 99;
- Elizabeth Einberg, "The Works of George Lambert", Walpole Society, 2001, vol. LXIII, p. 146, no. P1742C, fig. 63 (as Gaspardesque River Landscape with Drovers and Sheep);
- Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 (online edition).