Herbert Lambert
Herbert Richard Lambert, FRPS, (1882 – 7 March 1936) 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, and in 1926, he became managing director of the Elliott & Fry portrait studio. In 1930, he published Studio portrait lighting, a technical guidebook.
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Herbert Lambert
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- Name
- Herbert Lambert
- Birth Name
- Herbert Richard Lambert
- Born
- 1882
- Birthplace
- United Kingdom
- Died
- 7 March 1936
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Languages
- English
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Herbert Richard Lambert, FRPS, (1882 – 7 March 1936) 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, and in 1926, he became managing director of the Elliott & Fry portrait studio. In 1930, he published Studio portrait lighting, a technical guidebook.
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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. 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". Howells also introduced Lambert to Gerald Finzi, whose 1936 Interlude for oboe & string quartet, Op. 21 was inspired by Lambert. A Quaker, Lambert was imprisoned as a conscientious objector during the First World War. He lived in Combe Down, Bath, Somerset.
Portrait of composer Roger Quilter, photo by Herbert Lambert (died 1936).
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• Name — Herbert Lambert • Birth Name — Herbert Richard Lambert • Born — 1882 • Birthplace — United Kingdom • Died — 7 March 1936 • Place of death — United Kingdom • Occupation — Photographer
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