Item 05: The convex mirror, ca. 1916 / by George Lambert
Item 05: The convex mirror, ca. 1916 / by George Lambert
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ca. 1916
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ML 1292 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 249
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1 painting - diam. visible image 39.0 x 39.4 cm inside slip, in frame 70.0 x 69.0 cm - oil, pencil, on wood
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Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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This painting depicts a group of friends reflected through a mirror image. They stand in the low-beamed living-room of Belwethers, a cottage in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey. In 1916 Lambert visited the village when his son Constant became seriously ill with osteomyelitis while he was a student at Christ’s Hospital school in Horsham, West Sussex...
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Item 05: The convex mirror, ca. 1916 / by George Lambert
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Digital order no:Album ID : 1045551
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‘To pass the time, and determined not to give way to brooding over his sick son, Lambert painted The convex mirror, the reflection of a room in this cottage. Yet Lambert captured some of his sadness at the death of Mrs Halford (who acted as a grandmother to his children) and his anxiety over his son’s illness, as well as the universal unease and ap...
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ML 1292 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 249
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1xqZ0vaY
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1025630
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