乔治·兰斯（George Lance）是一位擅长静物和肖像微缩画的英国画家。1802年出生在埃塞克斯郡小伊斯顿的一座古老的庄园里。即使他在很小的时候就表现出了对艺术的偏爱，但在他十四岁之前还是被安置在了利兹的一家工厂里做工。14岁时他师从历史画家本杰明·罗伯特·海顿，在皇家学院学习了七年。在设计一幅受荷马《伊利亚特》启发的画时，他决定在开始正式的画作之前画一些水果和蔬菜作为练习。

事实证明他的工作非常有利可图，所以他决定全身心投入静物创作中。 他对自然世界的迷恋，也许源于他在埃塞克斯郡乡村的童年，这激发了他对植物学，解剖学和园艺学的进一步研究。

虽然他以画水果和鲜花而闻名，但他有时也创作历史和流派作品。1836年，他的著作《莫兰顿对教会的最初怀疑》 (Moranton’s first about the church) 在利物浦学院(Liverpool college)获奖。他的作品经常在英国机构展出，他为这些机构贡献了135件作品，其中48件捐赠给了英国艺术家协会，38件捐赠给了英国皇家艺术学院。他还展出了一些色彩丰富、真实自然的水果和猎物的画作。在19世纪20年代，他将静物画作为一种独特的绘画形式，这使他成为19世纪30年代和40年代欧洲静物画复兴运动的先驱。

图中是水果与花的静物组合，其中色彩丰富且浓重，饱和度较高，整体以暖色为主，对自然的展现也很真实。水果与鲜花在桌上的排列组合构成一个独立的空间，如同它们拥有着自己的生活，饱满的构图要求观者将注意力完全集中在水果的鲜明上，作者以细腻的笔触将水果的质感完美呈现，光影层次丰富，给人真实和静谧的生活感，展现其细致入微的自然主义。

George Lance was an English painter of still life and miniature portraits. He was born on an old manor house in little Easton, Essex. Although he showed a preference for art at an early age, he was placed in a factory in Leeds before he was fourteen. At the age of 14, he studied under the historical painter Benjamin Robert Haydn and spent seven years there, studying at the royal college. While designing a painting inspired by Homer's Iliad, he decided to practice painting fruits and vegetables before painting them. His work proved very profitable, so he decided to devote himself to still life. His fascination with the natural world, perhaps rooted in his childhood in rural Essex, inspired further research into botany, anatomy and horticulture.

Although he was mostly known for his paintings of fruits and flowers, he sometimes created historical and genre works. In 1836, he won the prize at Liverpool college for his work, "moranton's first doubts about the church." His work is most often exhibited by British institutions, to which he has contributed 135 works, and to which he has donated 48 to the Society of British Artists and 38 to the Royal Academy. He also exhibited pictures of fruits and dead game in rich colors and true to nature. His use of still life as a legal form of painting in the 1820s made him a pioneer of the still life revival in Europe in the 1830s and 1840s.