| Herbert Lambert | |
| Birth Name: | Herbert Richard Lambert |
| Birth Date: | 1882 |
| Birth Place: | United Kingdom |
| Death Date: | 7 March |
| Death Place: | United Kingdom |
| Occupation: | Photographer |
Herbert Richard Lambert, FRPS, (1882 – 7 March 1936)[1] was a British portrait photographer known for his portrayals of professional musicians and composers including Gustav Holst.
In 1923 he published Modern British Composers: Seventeen Portraits in collaboration with Sir Eugene Goossens,[2] and in 1926, he became managing director of the Elliott & Fry portrait studio.[3] In 1930, he published Studio portrait lighting, a technical guidebook.[4] He is also responsible for salvaging much of the 19th-century photography of Henry Fox Talbot, by re-photographing the remains of Talbot's photographs.[5]
In addition to photography, Lambert was also an amateur maker of musical instruments, specialising in harpsichords and clavichords.In 1927, he lent a clavichord which he had built to Herbert Howells; Howells used it to compose a 12-piece collection, which he named "Lambert's Clavichord".[6] [7]
Howells also introduced Lambert to Gerald Finzi,[8] whose 1936 Interlude for oboe & string quartet, Op. 21 was inspired by Lambert.[9]
A Quaker, Lambert was imprisoned as a conscientious objector during the First World War. He lived in Combe Down, Bath, Somerset.[10]