Background
Herbert Lambert was born in 1881, in the United Kingdom.
craftsman musician Photographer
Herbert Lambert was born in 1881, in the United Kingdom.
Lambert was an accomplished musician on both the harpsichord and the clavichord, spending many years designing finely adjusted clavichords. The photographer was primarily a portraitist, with many notable musicians of his day serving as subjects. He also copied Fox Talbot's works for posterity.
The younger Lambert worked with his father and brother in a studio in Bath, succeeding them in 1900. In 1923 Herbert published Modern British Composers: Seventeen Portraits in collaboration with Sir Eugene Goossens. In 1926 he became a managing director of the Elliott & Fry portrait studio. In four years he published Studio portrait lighting, a technical guidebook.
