Last week, we featured Louis Shabner and his kitsch portraits of pretty women. In doing our research on him, we discovered Walter Lambert. He’s probably not as well known as some of his contemporaries of a similar ilk; Shabner, Tretchikoff and Lynch. However, we think that he’s as talented as any of them.
He worked from the 1930s until the 60s creating the Leyland Ladies – portraits for the company’s annual calendar (examples of which are on the top row in the montage above). Many of the original oil on canvas Leyland artworks now reside at the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland, Lancashire.
In the late 1960s, he painted a number of covers for the Princess Tina weekly magazine and annuals. The readership was young, teen girls so the subject matter reflects this. Three examples are included above; 2nd row and 3rd row, left.
Stuart Webb (who recently wrote a book about Shabner) is lucky enough to own a few original Walter Lambert artworks – go check them out!
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