Philippe Lambert

{{Short description|Belgian banker and art collector (1930–2011)}}

Baron Philippe Lambert (March 1930 – September 2011) was a Belgian banker and art collector, of the Bank Brussels Lambert banking dynasty, and the husband of fellow art collector Baroness Marion Lambert.

He was born in March 1930,{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/o88SEukOWNrVD9DOebQqbk8QtVc/appointments |title=Philippe LAMBERT - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House) |publisher=Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-05-16}} the son of Baron Henri Lambert (1887–1933) and Johanna von Reininghaus (1899–1960).

{{cite web|url=http://geneall.net/en/name/124619/philippe-lambert-baron-lambert/ |title=Philippe Lambert, baron Lambert, * 1930 |publisher=Geneall.net |date= |accessdate=2016-05-16}} He was the great-grandson of Baron James Mayer de Rothschild and the great-great-grandson of Samuel Lambert, who in 1840 established the family-owned Banque Lambert. Banque de Bruxelles and Banque Lambert merged in 1974, to form Banque Bruxelles Lambert, which was one of the largest banks in Belgium.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/01/obituaries/baron-leon-lambert-banker-collected-art.html |title=Baron Leon Lambert - Banker Collected Art |publisher=NYTimes.com |date=1987-06-01 |accessdate=2016-05-16}}

He had a brother Leon Lambert, also a banker and art collector (1928/29–1987), and a sister Lucy, based in Brussels.