Luis Maria Augusto Pinto de Soveral, Marquess de Soveral ('Men of the Day. No. 1086. "Unlike Wilkes, who was only half-an-hour behind the handsomest man in Europe, M. de Soveral is usually a minute or two ahead of him."')
25 of 29 portraits by Sir Max Beerbohm
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Luis Maria Augusto Pinto de Soveral, Marquess de Soveral ('Men of the Day. No. 1086. "Unlike Wilkes, who was only half-an-hour behind the handsomest man in Europe, M. de Soveral is usually a minute or two ahead of him."')
by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 2 October 1907
14 1/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. (359 mm x 242 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D45400
Sitterback to top
- Luis Maria Augusto Pinto de Soveral, Marquess de Soveral (1855-1922), Portuguese ambassador. Sitter in 8 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Sir Henry Maximilian ('Max') Beerbohm (1872-1956), Writer and caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits, Sitter associated with 19 portraits.
Events of 1907back to top
Current affairs
Robert Baden Powell, a former lieutenant-general in the British Army, forms the Boy Scout Movement after holding a camp on Brownsea Island for a group of twenty-two boys of mixed social background. Baden Powell was inspired after finding that his 1903 military training manual Aids to Scouting had become a bestseller, and was being used by teachers and youth workers. The Scout movement has become a Worldwide phenomenon, with over 38 million members in 216 countries.Art and science
The poet, author and critic Edmund Gosse publishes his autobiography Father and Son, an account of his relationship with his devout Christian father, the zoologist Phillip Gosse. Edmund's detailing of his loss of faith is a reflection on the Victorian age itself.Anna Pavlova first dances The Dying Swan, choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Camille Saint-Saens, at a charity performance.
International
America is gripped by a financial crisis as a collapse of trust companies causes panic amongst shareholders.Aged twenty, the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century architecture, designs his first house at La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland.
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