Maurice Lambert, RA (1901-1964) was born in Paris and was apprenticed for five years from the age of 17 to Francis Derwent Wood, RA. In 1930 he was elected a member of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers and Potters and of the London Group. He produced a range of experimental abstract and figurative pieces as well as portrait busts and was elected a Royal Academician in 1952.