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LAMBRON DES riLTIERES LAMBRON DES PILTlfiRES, ALBERT, born at Saint-Calais (Sarthe), May 13, 1830. History and genre painter, pupil of Flandrin andGleyre ; aims at attracting the public by peculiar, bizarre subjects, treated with great talent, humour, and technical skill. Works : A Flaneur (1859); Ash Wednesday, Reunion of Friends (18G1); Deception (18G4); Ma- donna (1805), Angers Museum ; An Execu- tion (18GG) ; Clown, Difference (18G8) ; Cu- pid and the Widow (1809); Clown and Dwarf (1872); Sea Swallow, The Victor, Ba- zile (1875). LAMBTON, MASTER, Sir Thomas Law- Master Lambton, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Earl of Durham. ranee., Earl of Durham. Son of J. G. Lamb- ton, 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 1G15, died at Antwerp short- ly 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 1036. 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, Dun- kirk Museum ; Company of Ladies and Gen- tlemen at Play, Lille Museum ; Soldiers and Women carousing, Madrid Museum ; La- dies and Gentlemen dancing, Gotha Muse- um ; Card Players, Hanover Gallery ; do. Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna ; Soldiers and Women carousing, Madrid Museum ; Con- versation-pieces (8), Mansi Collection, Luc- ca ; Married Couple plundered by Robbers, and another (both attributed to Eubens), Palazzo Corsini, Rome. Bode, Studien, 172; Rooses (Reber), 383 ; Van den Branden, 1009 ; Van Lerius, Artistes Anversois, ii. 365. LAMI, LOUIS EUGENE, born in Paris, Jan. 12, 1800. History and genre painter, pupil of Gros and Horace Veruet. Gained his first laurels as a water-colour painter of scenes in fashionable life ; has since paint- ed historical subjects and pictures of life in Russia. Medals : 2d class, 18G5 ; L. of Honour, 1837 ; Officer, 1862. Works : Studies of Horses, Battle of Puerto de Mira- vento (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 ; Manoeuvres at Corona- tion 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), Bat- tle of Wattignies, Taking of Maestricht 1794 (1837), Surrender of Antwerp 1832 (1838), Versailles Museum ; Reception at St. James's (1853) ; Ball at the Tuileries ; 10