George Cochran Lambdin is now best known for floral paintings, especially roses from his own garden. However, during his lifetime, he was recognized for his skill with sentimental genre subjects of which one of his most famous was "The Dead Wife," completed in 1860. Its popularity, with the bereaved husband holding the hand of his dead wife, was so great that it was in the 1867 Paris Universal Exposition.
He also painted many portraits of Philadelphia women, usually accompanied by roses (showing 500 of 1719 characters). |
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Paris Pre 1900
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