George Cochran Lambdin

George Cochran Lambdin (1830–1896) was an American Victorian artist, best known for his paintings of flowers.

[1][3] He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and exhibited there beginning in 1848.

[1] During the American Civil War, he worked with the United States Sanitary Commission, distributing medicines and bandages to troops in the field.

[1] He was in poor health, beginning in middle age, and settled in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

[3] There, he concentrated on painting flowers, especially roses, for the last 25 years of his life.