Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p A sergeant of the Light Horse is a 1920 painting by Australian artist George Washington Lambert. The portrait depicts an Australian soldier in Palestine during World War I.The sitter for the portrait was Thomas Herbert (Harry) Ivers, a sergeant with the 1st Signal Squadron of the Australian Light Horse. Lambert met Ivers, a map maker, in Damascus in 1919 and later Ivers was granted permission to assist Lambert in London. The portrait was painted in Lambert's studio in Kensington, London.When composing the work, Lambert deliberately set out to "created a new model for the military portrait" eschewing the heroic and dashing soldier on horseback. The painting was intended to represent the typical Australian light horseman—mainly men from the farms, dairies and orchards across rural Australia. War correspondent H.S. Gullett wrote of the Australian lighthorseman: "So far as a distinctive type has been evolved it is … young men long of limb and feature, spare of flesh, easy and almost tired in bearing ... He bears himself modestly ... A felt slouch hat, a shirt with sleeves rolled to the elbows, long trousers".Reviewing the painting for an exhibition of Lambert's works in 2007, the National Gallery of Australia noted that "Lambert gave this serviceman a sensuousness through his sharp-focus rendering of flesh and musculature, and in the way he portrayed the taut neck and wiry arms." Hans Heysen observed, "the feeling way the eyes have been painted and the expression of that sensitiveness around the mouth are truly wonderful".The portrait palette, and other features such as the downward look and slender neck, were influenced by the artist's appreciation of the works of Botticelli.The portrait was purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria from the Felton Bequest in 1921, on the advice of its director Bernard Hall. The painting remains part of the National Gallery of Victoria's Australian art collection. The painting appeared on a stamp in 1974.. }
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- A_sergeant_of_the_Light_Horse abstract "A sergeant of the Light Horse is a 1920 painting by Australian artist George Washington Lambert. The portrait depicts an Australian soldier in Palestine during World War I.The sitter for the portrait was Thomas Herbert (Harry) Ivers, a sergeant with the 1st Signal Squadron of the Australian Light Horse. Lambert met Ivers, a map maker, in Damascus in 1919 and later Ivers was granted permission to assist Lambert in London. The portrait was painted in Lambert's studio in Kensington, London.When composing the work, Lambert deliberately set out to "created a new model for the military portrait" eschewing the heroic and dashing soldier on horseback. The painting was intended to represent the typical Australian light horseman—mainly men from the farms, dairies and orchards across rural Australia. War correspondent H.S. Gullett wrote of the Australian lighthorseman: "So far as a distinctive type has been evolved it is … young men long of limb and feature, spare of flesh, easy and almost tired in bearing ... He bears himself modestly ... A felt slouch hat, a shirt with sleeves rolled to the elbows, long trousers".Reviewing the painting for an exhibition of Lambert's works in 2007, the National Gallery of Australia noted that "Lambert gave this serviceman a sensuousness through his sharp-focus rendering of flesh and musculature, and in the way he portrayed the taut neck and wiry arms." Hans Heysen observed, "the feeling way the eyes have been painted and the expression of that sensitiveness around the mouth are truly wonderful".The portrait palette, and other features such as the downward look and slender neck, were influenced by the artist's appreciation of the works of Botticelli.The portrait was purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria from the Felton Bequest in 1921, on the advice of its director Bernard Hall. The painting remains part of the National Gallery of Victoria's Australian art collection. The painting appeared on a stamp in 1974.".