Henry Taylor Lamb MC RA was an Australianborn British painter. A follower of Augustus John, Lamb was a founder member of the Camden Town Group in 1911 and of the London Group in 1913.
Henry Lamb was born in Adelaide, Australia, the son of Sir Horace Lamb FRS , who was the professor of Mathematics at Adelaide University. When Horace Lamb was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1885 the family moved to England. Henry Lamb was educated at Manchester Grammar School, before studying medicine at Manchester University Medical School and Guys Hospital in London, but Lamb abandoned medicine to study painting at Acadmie de La Palette, Paris, an art academy where the painters Jean Metzinger, Andr Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Le Fauconnier taught.
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