He was born in Middleboro, May 5, 1861, the son of August and Ardelia (Monk) Lamb. At the age of 17 he entered Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston and studied under Arthur Smith of England. This school was the first of its type in America. Later he taught modeling in clay and casting and painting in oil from still life at the New England Consevatory of Music. He later was associated with the Boston Art Museum School of Art. He studied in Paris at the Julien Academy.

He was affiliated with the Boston Art Club, American Federation of Arts, Society of American Water Color Painters, New York Water Color Club, Washington Society of Water Color Painters, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and the Boston Society of Water Color Painters.

Mr. Lamb was a highly skillful artist in many phases of painting. His murals in the corridor of City Hall in Brockton have won admiration from the citizens of that city as well as the many out-of-town visitors who pass through the building.

Mr. Lamb was awarded a silver medal at the Panama Pacific international exhibition in San Francisco for his picture, "Our New England". This picture was proclaimed by leading art critics as typifying the real New England.

"The End of the Trail," a life-size painting of hounds picking up a fox, was the only animal picture accepted by the Boston jury to be shown at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. More than 600 pictures of various types were passed on by the jury. It was later shown in San Francisco and numerous exhibitions throughout the country. While being shown in Philadelphia it was stolen from the gallery and recovered three years later.