George Cochran Lambdin
George Cochran Lambdin (1830–1896) was an American Victorian artist, best known for his paintings of flowers. Early life and education
Lambdin was born January 6, 1830 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of portrait painter James Lambdin. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and exhibited there beginning in 1848. Career
During the American Civil War, he worked with the United States Sanitary Commission, distributing medicines and bandages to troops in the field. He painted genre scenes of camp life and domestic scenes that often included soldiers. He was in poor health, beginning in middle age, and settled in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. There, he concentrated on painting flowers, especially roses, for the last 25 years of his life. Many of these paintings were copied as chromolithographs and were mass-produced. In 1868, he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an academician of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He died in Germantown on January 28, 1896. Gallery

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 "Gallery of George Cochran paintings at Bedford Fine Art Gallery, Bedford, Pennsylvania, U.S.

1830 births
1896 deaths
19th-century American male artists
American male painters
Painters from Pittsburgh
Painters from Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni
People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War