Henry Lamb was a painter and draftsman, especially of portraits and figure groups.  He was born in Adelaide, Australia.  The family returned to Manchester in 1886.  Lamb studied medicine at Manchester University, but after election as a student for 1904-05 at MAFA he moved to London and in 1906 enrolled at Chelsea Art School, run by Augustus John and William Orpen, afterwards attending L’Ecole de la Palette, Paris.  Prior to World War I he became involved with Euphemia (Nina Forrest), whom he married, Dorelia John and Lady Ottoline Morrell: painted in Brittany and Ireland: and exhibited with the AAA, Camden Town Group and NEAC.  In World War I after further studies he served as a medical officer and as an official war artist abroad.  In the 1920’s Lamb’s reputation grew: he exhibited at the RA from 1921 (elected RA in 1949): first one-man show at Alpine Gallery, 1922: married Lady Pansy Pakenham, 1928; and began a long association with the Leicester Galleries, 1927.  Official war artist in World War II.  Lamb was a fine draftsman and a painter whose palette was muted but unmistakable.  He finished a number of pictures that are a key part of modern British painting: Death of a Peasant, Lytton Strachey and Evelyn Waugh.  His work appears in many public collections, including Tate Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, the Manchester City Art Gallery held a Retrospective exhibition in 1984, and touring.  Lived at Coombe Bissett, Wiltshire.