Frank Lambert

Frank Lambert, CBE FBA (1884 – 13 January 1973) was a museum and art gallery curator. After appointments in London, Stoke-on-Trent and Leeds he was director of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool for twenty years, from 1932.

Life and career Lambert was born in London and educated at St Olave's Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He studied Greek and Roman art under Sir Charles Walton, Slade Professor of Fine Art.

His first professional appointment (1908–1924) was assistant curator to the Guildhall Museum, London. From 1924 to 1927 he was curator of the Stoke-on-Trent Art Gallery, and from 1927 to 1931 he was director of the Leeds City Art Gallery.

Lambert was well known as a lecturer, first at London University (1920–24) and from 1927 to 1931 at Leeds University. In 1937–38 he was Sydney Jones Lecturer in Art at Liverpool University. He defended modern art against attacks by anti-modernists, maintaining, "There is no norm in contemporary art because there is no norm in the art and the science of living."

Lambert served as president of the Museums Association from 1946 to 1948, in which year he was appointed CBE. He retired in 1952 and died at the age of 88.