Henry Lamb

[1883-1960]

Portrait, figure and landscape
painter and draughtsman

Born in Australia, Lamb was brought up in Manchester, where his father was professor of mathematics at the University. He graduated in medicine, but abandoned this career for painting. He studied under Francis Dodd and Augustus John, and at La Palette in Paris, and was a founder member of the Camden Town and London Groups. During WWI Lamb served as a battalion medical officer in France, Macedonia and Palestine, being awarded the MC in 1918. Exposure to gas permanently weakened his health. From 1939-45 he was an official war artist, painting portraits of servicemen and foreign military attachés, but failing health led him to concentrate on still-life towards the end of his life. Lamb produced two works for the book - Irish troops being shelled, an oil painting virtually identical to his Palestine War Picture in the collection of the Imperial War Museum, and a pencil portrait of Guy Dawnay.

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