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Constant Lambert

(1905-1951), Composer, conductor and critic

Sitter in 33 portraits
Lambert and his brother, the sculptor Maurice Lambert, were brought up in South London. He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, and in the 1920s was part of the bohemian group that included the Sitwells and William Walton. A champion of modernism, he urged the incorporation of continental and jazz influences into English music, reflected in his best-known composition The Rio Grande (1929). Other works include a major choral masque Summer's Last Will and Testament (1936) and ballet music Horoscope (1938) and Tiresias (1951), both for Margot Fonteyn. He was Musical Director at Sadlers Wells Ballet until 1947.

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Constant Lambert, by Christopher Wood - NPG 4443

Constant Lambert

by Christopher Wood
oil on canvas, 1926
On display in Room 25 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4443

Constant Lambert, by Oriel Ross - NPG 6576

Constant Lambert

by Oriel Ross
pen and ink, 1930s
NPG 6576

Constant Lambert, by Gordon Anthony - NPG x44773

Constant Lambert

by Gordon Anthony
modern bromide print from original negative, 1930s
NPG x44773

Constant Lambert, by Yvonne Gregory - NPG x19801

Constant Lambert

by Yvonne Gregory
bromide print, 1930
NPG x19801

Constant Lambert, by Yevonde - NPG x131742

Constant Lambert

by Yevonde
black and white reprint on card mount, 1933
NPG x131742

Constant Lambert, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x81190

Constant Lambert

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 9 May 1933
NPG x81190

Constant Lambert, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x81191

Constant Lambert

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 9 May 1933
NPG x81191

Constant Lambert, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x81192

Constant Lambert

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 9 May 1933
NPG x81192

Constant Lambert, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x81193

Constant Lambert

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 9 May 1933
NPG x81193

Constant Lambert, by Cecil Beaton - NPG x14124

Constant Lambert

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1936
NPG x14124

Constant Lambert, by Gordon Anthony - NPG x137069

Constant Lambert

by Gordon Anthony
vintage print, 1940s
NPG x137069

Sir Robert Murray Helpmann; Constant Lambert, by John Worley Debenham - NPG x194405

Sir Robert Murray Helpmann; Constant Lambert

by John Worley Debenham
bromide press print, 1940s
NPG x194405

Constant Lambert, by Lola Walker (Lola Marsden) - NPG x125632

Constant Lambert

by Lola Walker (Lola Marsden)
vintage bromide print, 26 March 1951
NPG x125632

Constant Lambert, by Lola Walker (Lola Marsden) - NPG x125633

Constant Lambert

by Lola Walker (Lola Marsden)
vintage bromide print, 26 March 1951
NPG x125633

Constant Lambert, by Lola Walker (Lola Marsden) - NPG x125634

Constant Lambert

by Lola Walker (Lola Marsden)
vintage bromide print, 26 March 1951
NPG x125634

Constant Lambert, by Norman Parkinson - NPG x30025

Constant Lambert

by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on card mount, 1951
NPG x30025

Constant Lambert, after Wyndham Lewis - NPG D32949

Constant Lambert

after Wyndham Lewis
lithograph, 1932
NPG D32949

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Constant Lambert

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1944-1945
NPG x23198

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Constant Lambert

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1944-1945
NPG x23199

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Constant Lambert

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1944-1945
NPG x23200

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Constant Lambert

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1944-1945
NPG x23201

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Constant Lambert

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1944-1945
NPG x23202

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Constant Lambert

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1944-1945
NPG x23203

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Constant Lambert

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1944-1945
NPG x23204

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Constant Lambert

by Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum)
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 11 September 1946
NPG x193325

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Constant Lambert

by Bill Brandt
bromide print on card mount, 1946
NPG x22437

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Constant Lambert

by Howard Coster
print
NPG x10686

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Trevor Bruce d'Egville Powell, Lt Colonel (Retd)

01 June 2020, 00:00

Lambert was an exact contemporary and close friend of the novelist (my distant cousin) Anthony Powell and is likely to have been the inspiration for Hugh Moreland, the musician character in 'A Dance to the Music of Time'.