Herbert Lambert

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.

Herbert Lambert
Born	Herbert Richard Lambert 1882 United Kingdom
Died	7 March 1936 (aged 53–54) United Kingdom
Occupation	Photographer

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.^[5] He lived in Combe Down, Bath, Somerset.^[10]