Baron Philippe Lambert (March 1930 – September 2011) was a Belgian banker and art collector, of the

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banking dynasty, and the husband of fellow art collector Baroness Marion Lambert. He was born in March 1930, the son of Baron Henri Lambert (1887–1933) and Johanna von Reininghaus (1899–1960). He was the great-grandson of Baron

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and the great-great-grandson of Samuel Lambert, who in 1840 established the family-owned

Banque Lambert Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL, french: Banque Bruxelles Lambert) was a Belgian bank that was created through merger in 1975 and became part of ING Group in 1998. It provided retail and commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in Belgi ...

. Banque de Bruxelles and Banque Lambert merged in 1974, to form

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, which was one of the largest banks in Belgium. He had a brother Leon Lambert, also a banker and art collector (1928/29–1987), and a sister Lucy, based in Brussels.

Personal life

He married Patricia Harris (born 1932), and they divorced in 1973. In 1962, and they had one child, Johanna Lambert. He married Baroness Marion Lambert in 1975, and they had two children together, a son, Henri Lambert, and Philippine Lambert, who killed herself aged 20. They lived in

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, Switzerland, and owned an 18th-century Florentine-style villa, the Palazzo Terranova, in Umbria. Philipe Lambert died in September 2011.

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