Harold Knight (1874-1961)
A Cornish Boy, 1917
POA
Henry Taylor Lamb (1883-1960)
Edwin John, c. 1912
Pencil; labelled
8 ½ x 5 ¼ inches
£3,800
Provenance
Lady Pansy Lamb (the artist's widow);
New Grafton Gallery;
Wolseley Fine Arts
Exhibitions
J.L.W. Bird, London, Winter Exhibition, 7-11 November 1983, no. 27
In 1906, Henry Lamb swapped medical school for the Chelsea Art School, run by Augustus John. As a mentor and a friend, John shared living quarters and even mistresses with Lamb, who had a brief affair with Dorelia McNeill. Thoroughly acquainted with the Johns, Lamb drew Augustus's children on several occasions. This sketch of seven-year-old Edwin, with his mischievous stifled smirk, is simple and innocent - drawn in 1912, before Lamb was to serve on the Western Front.