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Portrait of a Lady in a Red Chair Attirbuted to James Lambdin,
unsigned, three-quarter length portrait of a pensive woman, wearing a black dress with a lace collor and sleeves, sitting in a red-upholstered easy chair. A typed note on the reverse attributes the painting to James Lambdin. In a newer black and gold-painted frame; 35.5" x 28.5" (w/o frame), 39.5" x 32.5" (w/frame). James Lambdin (1807-1889), born in Pittsburgh, at 13, he was studying with John Stein in Steubenville, Ohio, and then to Philadelphia where he studied with Edward Miles and Thomas Sully. In 1826, he returned to Pittsburgh and opened up the Museum of Natural History and Gallery of Painting. In 1832, he moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and spent several years as an itinerant painter traveling between Pittsburgh and Mobile, Alabama. In 1837, he settled in Philadelphia where he taught as a professor of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He exhibited at the PAFA frequently, and the NAD in the 1840s and 50s, and his sitters include Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln. His portrait of Ulysses S. Grant in uniform sold at Sotheby's (New York) in 1995. ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images: 
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