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Man with rabbit, ca. 1910 is in the collection of the State Library of New South Wales located in Sydney, NSW, Australia. A head and shoulder portrait of man in hat holding a rabbit Acquired from the estate of G.W. Lambert, October 1931

Description
< Signed 'Geo. W.Lambert' lower right. Undated. Inscibed on back, 'Mr Denis Allen of Allen, Allen & Hemsley informed Mr. Ifould in March 1932, that George Lambert painted a portrait group of the Baroness de Neujville and two children, and the 'Man with the rabbit' is a portrait sketch of the Baron de Neujville". >

Location history
A Man with a Rabbit is a beautifully rendered, somewhat playful portrait that is at once classically posed and relaxed — it suggests social credibility yet hints at eccentricity.

An inscription on the reverse of the canvas, dated March 1932, notes that Lambert had ‘painted a portrait group of Baroness de Neufville and two children and the “Man with the rabbit” is a portrait sketch of the Baron de Neufville’.

Painted in de Neufville’s London home, Houlgate, the painting was exhibited in the Modern Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition in London in 1910 titled ‘Le Baron de Neufville’.

Portraiture was Lambert’s principle source of income, yet A Man with a Rabbit seems unlikely to have been a commissioned work. In her account of his career, Thirty Years of an Artist’s Life (1938), Lambert’s wife, Amy, recorded that he refused to sell the portrait to the sitter. Lambert kept the portrait until the end of his life.

A Man with a Rabbit is one of several works acquired by the State Library from Lambert’s estate in 1931.

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