Sir Max Beerbohm
(1872-1956), Writer and caricaturistSir Henry Maximilian ('Max') Beerbohm
Sitter associated with 19 portraits
Artist associated with 29 portraits
Sir Henry Maximilian 'Max' Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist under the signature 'Max'. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911. His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting, are in many public collections.
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by William Nicholson
oil on canvas, 1905
NPG 3850
by Alvin Langdon Coburn
photogravure, 15 January 1908
NPG Ax7783
Siegfried Sassoon; Florence (née Kahn), Lady Beerbohm; Sir Max Beerbohm
by Unknown photographer
velox snapshot print, circa 1937
NPG x46601
by Unknown photographer
velox snapshot print, circa 1937
NPG x46600
published by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1937
NPG x14022
Sir Max Beerbohm ('Men of the Day. No. 696.')
by Walter Sickert
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 9 December 1897
NPG D44885
by William Rothenstein
lithograph, published 1899 (1898)
NPG D32976
by Mark Wayner (Weiner)
lithograph, published 1931
NPG D23324
after William Rothenstein
transfer lithograph, 20 July 1941 (1928)
NPG D4448
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