Adrian Lamb - The Artist
Adrian Lamb (1901-1988) was an American artist, well-known for his portraits of historic Americans including Benjamin Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt.
Lamb was born in New York City and studied at the Art Students League during the 1920s. He later attended the Académie Julian in Paris and spent time traveling across France, Spain, England, Italy, Greece, and Mexico, working and honing his skills as a portrait artist.
Among Lamb’s notable works are his portrait of President James Monroe, which is part of the White House Collection, and that of 1950’s National Security Advisor Gordon Gray, which is displayed in the Pentagon. A U.S. Senate committee, whose five members included Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy, also commissioned a painting of Daniel Webster from Lamb to adorn the Senate Reception Room. His paintings have also been displayed in the U.S. Embassies, the Smithsonian Institute, Harvard’s School of Law and the U.S. Naval Academy.