Sir Max Beerbohm
10 of 19 portraits of Sir Max Beerbohm







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Sir Max Beerbohm
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1930s?
6 1/4 in. x 4 1/2 in. (160 mm x 114 mm) image size
Purchased, 1981
Photographs Collection
NPG x14349
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- Sir Henry Maximilian ('Max') Beerbohm (1872-1956), Writer and caricaturist. Sitter associated with 19 portraits, Artist associated with 29 portraits.
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