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 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).

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;