Lot 33: * GEORGE LAMBERT 1710-1765

signed and dated Lambert 1737 lower left

oil on canvas

Condition Note: Lined canvas. The surface is slightly thinner in the sky but otherwise with good retention of pigment; craquelure in the sky; clean varnish. Under UV light: very fine craquelure filling in the sky, mostly concentrated at center of canvas and near the upper edge.

25 by 47 in.<br><br>63.5 by 119.4 cm.

J. Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicestershire, 1789, vol. II, part II, p. 749 (as hanging in "the best parlor")
Noseley catalogue, 1929, p. 1

PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN CORPORATION

Sir Arthur Hesilrige, England (commissioned by him in the 1730s)
Sale: Sotheby's, Noseley Hall, Billesdon, Leicestershire, September 28, 1998, lot 89
Simon Dickinson, Ltd., London

The present painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works of George Lambert currently in preparation by Dr. Elizabeth Einburg.