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James Lambdin

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James Reid Lambdin (1807 - 1889) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  James Lambdin is known for Portrait, miniature, some views.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James Lambdin became a skilled mid-19th century portrait painter of prominent persons including politicians and U.S. Presidents Lincoln and Grant. He also did portraits of soldiers including Arkansas writer Charles Fenton Mercer Noland in his military uniform.

At age 16, Lambdin studied in Philadelphia with miniaturist Edward Miles and then for three years with Thomas Sully. In 1826, he returned to Pittsburgh to become a portrait painter, and opened a museum and art gallery patterned after that of Charles Willson Peale in Philadelphia. Faced with diminished interest in his portraits and the museum, he moved to Louisville, Kentucky for 5 years and from there, traveled in the South including to Arkansas for portrait commissions.

In 1837, he opened a studio in Philadelphia and worked there until his death in 1889. From 1845 to 1864, he was Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and from 1861 to 1865, was professor of fine ar   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1134 characters.]  Artist bio

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38 Book References for James Lambdin
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Delehanty, Randolph Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection 292 Yes
1992 Danly, Susan Facing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy 104 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Pachter, Marc A Gallery of Presidents 95 No
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1970 Bolton, Theodore Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons 111 No
1969 Stewart, Robert G A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans 93 No
1968 Townsend, Benjamin (others) This New Man A Discourse in Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 217 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1941 New York Historical Society American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures 367 No
1940 Addison, Agnes (editor) Portraits In the University of Pennsylvania 67 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1925 Pennell, Joseph The Adventures of an Illustrator Mostly in Following His Authors in America & Europe 372 No
1922 Kelby, William Notes on American Artists 1754-1820 Portraits & Sculpture in New York Hist Society 80 Yes
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
1918 Ehrich Galleries One Hundred Early American Paintings 176 No
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