Constant Lambert
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Leonard Constant Lambert was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founding music director of the Royal Ballet, and he was a major figure in the establishment of the English ballet as
Portrait by Christopher Wood (1926)
'The artist’s wife, Amy, and their son Constant' by George Washington Lambert
Lambert aged about eleven in the uniform of Christ's Hospital, painting by his father George Lambert
Portrait of Constant Lambert, painting by Christopher Wood, 1927.
Margot Fonteyn
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Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE, known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, now known as the Ro
Constant Lambert
…managers of The Who, named after his friend the painter Christopher "Kit" Wood. But he was soon engaged in an on-and-off affair with the ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn. According to friends of Fonteyn, Lambert was the great love of her life and she despaired when she finally realised he would never marry her. Some…
Fonteyn in the 1960s
Robert Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn, Façade (1936)
Fonteyn and Helpmann, The Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells 1950 U.S. tour
At a rehearsal for The Ed Sullivan Show in 1953 (at the time known as Toast of the Town)