Maurice Lambert
1901-1964
Born in Paris, the British sculptor Maurice Lambert (1901-1964), son of the painter George Washington Lambert, trained under Francis Derwent Wood. First exhibited in 1925, he explored the motif of the bird in flight from 1926 and worked in marble, alabaster, wood, stone and metal. He took part in the art competitions of the 1928 and 1948 Olympic Games, taught sculpture at the Royal Academy from 1950 to 1958 and was elected a Royal Academician in 1952.
