LAMBRON DES PILTIÈRES, ALBERT, born at Saint-Calais (Sarthe), May 13, 1836. History and genre painter, pupil of Flandrin and Gleyre; aims at attracting the public by peculiar, bizarre subjects, treated with great talent, humour, and technical skill. Works: A Flâneur (1859); Ash Wednesday, Reunion of Friends (1861); Deception (1864); Madonna (1865), Angers Museum; An Execution (1866); Clown, Difference (1868); Cupid and the Widow (1869); Clown and Dwarf (1872); Sea Swallow, The Victor, Bazile (1875).
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Master Lambton, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Earl of Durham.
LAMBTON, MASTER, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Earl of Durham. Son of J. G. Lambton, Lord Durham; full-length, seated on the rocky edge of a precipice, overlooking a landscape. Royal Academy, 1825. Engraved by S. Cousins (1827), G. H. Phillips (1839).—Gower, 45, 73.
LAMEN (Laenen), CHRISTOFFEL
JACOB VAN DER, born at Antwerp or
Brussels about 1615, died at Antwerp shortly
after Sept. 22, 1651. Flemish school;
genre painter, son and pupil of Jacob van
der Lamen (born in 1584); master of the
guild at Antwerp in 1636. When not
signed, his pictures usually pass under the
names of Jan le Ducq and Palamedes, as
in the museums of Darmstadt, Frankfort,
Gotha, and Meiningen. His best are in
Italy. Works: Musical Party, Game of
Tric-Trac, Young Man's Portrait, Th. van
Lerius, Antwerp; Game of Tric-Trac, Dunkirk
Museum; Company of Ladies and Gentlemen
at Play, Lille Museum; Soldiers and
Women carousing, Madrid Museum; Ladies
and Gentlemen dancing, Gotha Museum;
Card Players, Hanover Gallery; do.
Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Soldiers and
Women carousing, Madrid Museum; Conversation-pieces
(8), Mansi Collection, Lucca;
Married Couple plundered by Robbers,
and another (both attributed to Rubens),
Palazzo Corsini, Rome.—Bode, Studien, 172;
Rooses (Reber), 383; Van den Branden,
1009; Van Lerius, Artistes Anversois, ii.
365.
LAMI, LOUIS EUGÈNE, born in Paris,
Jan. 12, 1800. History and genre painter,
pupil of Gros and Horace Vernet. Gained
his first laurels as a water-colour painter of
scenes in fashionable life; has since painted
historical subjects and pictures of life
in Russia. Medals: 2d class, 1865; L.
of Honour, 1837; Officer, 1862. Works:
Studies of Horses, Battle of Puerto de Miravento
(1824), Versailles Museum; Battle of
Tramaced (1827); Fight in the Balkan;
Charles I. receiving a Rose when on his Way
to Prison (1831); Skirmish at Claye (1831),
Versailles Museum; Manœuvres at Coronation
of Nicholas I. (1827); Racing to Church;
Muscovite Courage (1834); Masqueraders
in a Wagon (1836); Battle of Hondscoote,
1793 (1836), Lille Museum; do. (1838), and
Fight in Defiles of the Argonne (1835), Battle
of Wattignies, Taking of Maestricht—1794
(1837), Surrender of Antwerp—1832
(1838), Versailles Museum; Reception at
St. James's (1853); Ball at the Tuileries;
