Maurice Lambert

Maurice Lambert RA (25 June 1901 – 17 August 1964) was a British sculptor. He was the son of the artist George Washington Lambert and brother of the composer and author Constant Lambert.

Lambert is mostly known for his public sculptures. He was also a member of the Seven and Five Society and The London Group. Lambert was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1950-1958.

The son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert and his wife Amelia Beatrice Absell, Maurice Lambert was born in Paris in 1901. He was educated at Manor House School in Clapham, London. From 1918 to 1923, Lambert was apprenticed to the sculptor Francis Derwent Wood. During this period, Lambert helped Wood complete the Machine Gun Corps Memorial now located on Hyde Park Corner in London. At this time he also helped in his father's studio as a painting assistant and model. Lambert became Wood's assistant in 1924. He attended Chelsea College of Art from 1920 until 1925.

Lambert's sculptures were first exhibited at Regent Street's Goupil Gallery in the spring of 1925 where he showed mainly bronze portraits. He held his first one man exhibition at the Claridge Gallery in 1927. Lambert's use of a wide range of materials for sculpture and carving was made evident at a 1929 show at Tooth's Gallery, where he exhibited sculptures made from marble, alabaster, African hardwood, Portland stone and metal.

From 1950–1958, Lambert was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts.

On 27 July 1926 Lambert married Olga Marie Stuart.

Lambert died of cancer of the colon on 17 August 1964 at Guy's Hospital, London.

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