Sir Max Beerbohm

1872–1956

Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘The New English Art Club’ 1907 — The New English Art Club 1907
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Biography

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) 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.

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Artworks

Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘The New English Art Club’ 1907

Sir Max Beerbohm The New English Art Club

1907

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Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘Topsy and Ned Jones Settled on the Settle in Red Lion Square’ 1916

Sir Max Beerbohm Topsy and Ned Jones Settled on the Settle in Red Lion Square

1916

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Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘Ford Madox Brown being Patronized by Holman Hunt’ 1916

Sir Max Beerbohm Ford Madox Brown being Patronized by Holman Hunt

1916

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Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘Mr William Bell Scott Wondering What It is Those Fellows Seem to See in Gabriel’ 1916

Sir Max Beerbohm Mr William Bell Scott Wondering What It is Those Fellows Seem to See in Gabriel

1916

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Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘Miss Cornforth: ‘Oh, very pleased to meet Mr Ruskin, I’m sure’’ 1916

Sir Max Beerbohm Miss Cornforth: ‘Oh, very pleased to meet Mr Ruskin, I’m sure’

1916

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Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘The Sole Remark Likely to Have Been Made by Benjamin Jowett about the Mural Paintings at the Oxford Union’ 1916

Sir Max Beerbohm The Sole Remark Likely to Have Been Made by Benjamin Jowett about the Mural Paintings at the Oxford Union

1916

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Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘A Momentary Vision that Once Befell Young Millais’ 1916

Sir Max Beerbohm A Momentary Vision that Once Befell Young Millais

1916

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Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘Rossetti Insistently Exhorted by George Meredith to Come Forth into the Glorious Sun and Wind for a Walk to Hendon and Beyond’ 1916

Sir Max Beerbohm Rossetti Insistently Exhorted by George Meredith to Come Forth into the Glorious Sun and Wind for a Walk to Hendon and Beyond

1916

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Artist as subject

Reginald G Eves, ‘Max Beerbohm’ 1936

Reginald G Eves Max Beerbohm

1936

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Sir William Nicholson, recipient: Ben Nicholson OM, ‘Letter to Ben Nicholson from his father William, regarding William Nicholson’s portrait of Florence Phillips’ 29 August 1912

Sir William Nicholson, recipient: Ben Nicholson OM Letter to Ben Nicholson from his father William, regarding William Nicholson’s portrait of Florence Phillips

29 August 1912

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Sir William Nicholson, recipient: Ben Nicholson OM, ‘Letter to Ben Nicholson from his father William featuring a sketch for Selfridge illustration of William Nicholson in costume’ 18 March [1914]

Sir William Nicholson, recipient: Ben Nicholson OM Letter to Ben Nicholson from his father William featuring a sketch for Selfridge illustration of William Nicholson in costume

18 March [1914]

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Ben Nicholson OM, ‘Copy of a typescript with the heading, ‘William Nicholson’’ March 1967

Ben Nicholson OM Copy of a typescript with the heading, ‘William Nicholson’

March 1967

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Ben Nicholson OM, John Russell Copy of typescript and related notes with the heading, ‘Notes by John Russell on BN replies’

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Sir William Nicholson, recipient: Ben Nicholson OM, ‘Letter to Ben Nicholson in Pasadena, California, from his father William providing a detailed account of the wedding between Nancy Nicholson and Robert Graves’ 24 January 1918

Sir William Nicholson, recipient: Ben Nicholson OM Letter to Ben Nicholson in Pasadena, California, from his father William providing a detailed account of the wedding between Nancy Nicholson and Robert Graves

24 January 1918

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