Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, by Sir George James Frampton, 1918 -NPG 2392a - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

by Sir George James Frampton
Plaster cast of death mask, on integral rectangular plaster support, 1918
9 1/2 in. (241 mm)
NPG 2392a

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Incised with initials and date on support, lower left: ‘GF / 1918’

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NPG 2392a, a plain plaster copy of George Frampton’s death mask of Herbert Beerbohm Tree, was deposited at the National Portrait Gallery at an unknown date, and lacks provenance. [1] For more information on this posthumous portrait, a bronze-painted copy of which was accepted by the Gallery in 1929, see NPG 2392.

Carol Blackett-Ord

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1) Memorandum from K.K. Yung, Gallery registrar, 24 Feb. 1983, NPG RP 2392a.

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Head, facing.

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No provenance, accessioned 1983.

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