George Lance

Not many days later Lance, still not yet fourteen, entered Haydon's studio, and remained there for seven years, at the same time studying in the schools of the Royal Academy.

This work attracted the notice of Sir George Beaumont, who purchased it, and this success led him to paint another fruit-piece, which he sold to the Earl of Shaftesbury.

showing a still-life with an appended quotation from Samuel Butler's "Hudibras": "Goose, rabbit, pheasant, pigeons, all With good brown jug for beer not small!

[3] Although he gained his reputation chiefly as a painter of fruit and flowers, Lance sometimes produced historical and genre works, and his picture of Melanchthon's First Misgivings of the Church of Rome won the prize at the Liverpool Academy in 1836.

His most distinguished pupils were Sir John Gilbert and William Duffield, the latter an artist of great promise who died young in 1863.