• Title
  Item 13: [Sir Harry Chauvel and Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, ca. 1929] / painted by George Washington Lambert
• Call number
  ML 606
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1929
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  457924
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on wood panel - 31 x 41 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Lambert had met Major General Sir Granville Ryrie in 1918, while serving as an official war artist in Palestine during the First World War. Following his return to Australia in 1921, he first visited the Ryrie property Micalago, near Canberra, in January 1922, and became a regular visitor there over the following years. Lambert also met Sir Harry Chauvel in Palestine, where Chauvel was Commander of the Desert Mounted Corps. It was Chauvel who requested Lambert to paint the battlescene of Beersheba, resulting in the painting, 'The Charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba, 1917'.
• Scope and Content
  Image depicts the head and shoulder portrait of two men. Chauvel on the left, and Ryrie on the right. Source: Mitchell Picture Card Catalogue.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The Mitchell Picture Card Catalogue has identified the men as Chauvel and Ryrie. Identification for these men has also been confirmed from drawings by Lambert held at the Australian War Memorial. But it is also possible that the sitter is not Chauvel but is Mr. Campbell Gibson, the owner of Tirranna in the 1920s. The images have been identified as being preliminary paintings for the George Lambert painting 'The Tirranna Picnic Race Meeting, 1929', where the sitter is identified as Campbell Gibson. ML MSS 97/11 p. 207 has listing of 'G.W. Lambert Estate, drawings and paintings ...'. This image is listed as No. 145 'N. Gibson & Sir G. Ryrie'. Source: George W. Lambert a retrospective: heroes and icons by Anne Gray, ML Q759.994/682, p. 196; Mitchell office file, 1931/696; ML MSS 97/11, p. 207.
  Digital order no:a4042001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned; undated; untitled.
• Name
  Chauvel, Henry George, Sir, 1865-1945
  Gibson, Campbell
  Ryrie, Granville, Sir, 1865-1937
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  hats
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1593920

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