Henry Lamb RA & The Longford Trust

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Drawings by Henry Lamb RA to be shown alongside artworks created by inmates from Erlestoke Prison, near Devizes supported by The Longford Trust charity. The Longford Trust was founded in 2002 to continue the life-long commitment of the politician and Labour cabinet minister Frank Longford to prison reform. Frank was one of only two family guests at the marriage in 1928 of his older sister Pansy Pakenham to Henry Lamb.

10% by value of all artworks by Henry Lamb sold during the exhibition will go to support the Longford Trust endowment fund to secure the long-term future of its work supporting serving and ex-prisoners to go to university. Artworks by the prisoners is not for sale.

 

Biography 

Henry Lamb RA

[ 1883
- 1960 ]
Abandoning his medical studies to become an artist, in 1905 Lamb moved to London where he studied under Augustus John and William Orpen at their short-lived Chelsea Art School. A highly gifted draughtsman he soon moved to Paris, and painted in Brittany. On his return to London he made his name with an extraordinary full-life sized portrait of Lytton Strachey (now in the Tate).
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