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.
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin
by Sir Max Beerbohm
ink, watercolour and wash, 1897-1932
NPG 3853
by Sir Max Beerbohm
ink and wash, 1897
NPG 3857
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
by Sir Max Beerbohm
ink, watercolour and wash, circa 1898
NPG 3854
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
by Sir Max Beerbohm
ink, watercolour and crayon, before 1903
NPG 5343
Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale
by Sir Henry Maximilian ('Max') Beerbohm
watercolour, published 1907
NPG 7051
by Sir Max Beerbohm
pencil and wash, circa 1908
NPG 3252
Edward Henry Carson, 1st Baron Carson
by Sir Max Beerbohm
pencil and wash, 1912
NPG 3852
Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane
by Sir Max Beerbohm
ink and wash, published 1912
NPG 3855
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
by Sir Max Beerbohm
pencil and watercolour, 1931
NPG 6169
by Sir Max Beerbohm
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour
NPG 6427
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