This tragic event led to the creation of a new divinity: Osirantinous, or Antinous as a manifestation of Osiris, the god who died and was. It was purchased in Melbourne by Professor Hugo Meyer, who subsequently developed one of the finest private collections of Lambert’s works, including The Shop, 1909, Holiday in Essex c.1910, Chesham Street, 1910 and Pan is Dead, 1911. While Hadrian was visiting the province of Egypt in late AD 130, his favourite, Antinous, drowned mysteriously in the Nile River. Lambert exhibited this work at the Modern Society of Portrait Painters, in London, in 1907 and later at the Guild Hall, Melbourne, in 1910. The critic for the Sydney Morning Herald suggested on 27 October 1910 that this portrait had an ‘almost startling suggestion of life in the smooth and placid young face’. It is a stunning, detailed affidavit because he was with Hugo Chavez while he was being briefed on how it worked. The Times suggested on 15 January 1907 that it ‘would be excellent if he would only paint out the cigarette’. This too can be said of Lambert’s portrait.Ĭontemporary critics admired Lambert’s portrait, but not the cigarette. Stevenson suggested that in Velázquez’s portrait ‘the head, freed from distracting clamour of rival interests, alone occupies the eye and fixes the attention’, and that this allowed the artist to keep a tight grip on definitions and simplify the forms. In his monograph on Velázquez, which Lambert read, R.A.M. He painted it in the Spanish tradition, building up the portrait in lighter colors onto a dark brown ground. (AP) Authorities are searching for a man who opened fire Monday at a grocery store in Washington state, killing one person and injuring another. As in Velázquez’s portrait of the king, Lambert depicted himself in a black suit with a white collar, and even included a twirled moustache in the manner of the regent’s. Lambert based this head and shoulders portrait on Velázquez’s Philip IV of Spain, c.1656, which he was able to examine in detail in the National Gallery, London.
It became one of Lambert’s acknowledged successes and one of his favorite pictures. Here he adopted a spare composition and created an image that is convincing in its subtle modelling of the head. He leaves behind to mourn him 4 sisters in South Africa Marion, Valerie, Hazel and Julia, his wife of 59 years, Mildred, his 4 children Desiree, Amanda, Lisa and Matthew and their spouses, 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.
Lambert made many self portraits, of which this is one of the earliest and most austere. MEYER Hugo John Charles Febru Hugo died peacefully at Abbotsford Hospital on May 10, 2015.
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