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Painting by George Washington Lambert From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The convex mirror is a c 1916 oil with pencil on wood panel painting by Australian artist George Washington Lambert.
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The work depicts the interior of Belwethers, a cottage in Cranleigh, a village in Surrey in southern England.[1]
Lambert was influenced in the creation of this work by the late-Renaissance artist Parmigianino's 1520s painting Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror.[1]
It is a jewel-like piece of painting, with the lustre of a looking-glass, in which Lambert explored the distinction between how things appear in the picture or in a mirror, or how they are in life itself. He placed the artist within the painting on a separate plane from the other people within the scene, and showed him ignoring them and looking out to the viewer – observing the entire scene through a convex mirror. His hand thrusts forward, without a brush, spread wide as it would when distorted in a mirror.
— Anne Grey, [1]
Lambert's friend, artist Thea Proctor said The convex mirror "has the exquisite finish of the Dutch Masters, and shows that a present-day artist could also paint small things in a large manner."[1]
The painting was acquired by the State Library of New South Wales in 2012 as part of a bequest from art collector Helen Selle.[2]
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