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.
George Meredith ('Men of the Day. No. 659.')
by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 24 September 1896
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by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 28 December 1905
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William Johnson Galloway ('Men of the Day. No. 997. "He is very affluent."')
by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 11 January 1906
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by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 1 February 1906
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by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 2 October 1907
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Alfred Edward Woodley Mason ('Men of the Day. No. 1122. "Four Feathers."')
by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 10 June 1908
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Maurice Maeterlinck ('Men of the Day. No. 1128. "The Belgian Poet."')
by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 22 July 1908
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Sir George Alexander (George Samson) ('Men of the Day. No. 1155. "The St. James's."')
by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 20 January 1909
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John Singer Sargent ('Men of the Day. No. 1160. "A Great Realist."')
by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 24 February 1909
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