Lord Spencer

Details

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
Lord Spencer
signed, inscribed and numbered 'Max Beerbohm NO. 7616/Lord Spencer' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
pen and black ink and black wash
12¼ x 7½ in. (31 x 19 cm.)

Provenance

P.E.R. English Esq.
with Leicester Galleries, London.

Literature

R. Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, London, 1972, p. 142, no. 1581.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Sir Max Beerbohm, from the Guedalla Collection, September 1945, no. 117.
London, Leicester Galleries, Max Beerbohm Memorial Exhibition, June 1957.

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Lot Essay

This present caricature is of Sir Charles Robert Spencer, Viscount Althorp and 6th Earl Spencer from 1910. He was created 1st Viscount Althorp in 1905 to allow him to become Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 1905-1912. He was invested as Knight Grand Cross, Royal Victorian Order in 1911 and as Knight, Order of the Garter in 1913. Charles was the last Spencer to sit in parliament. Affectionately lampooned for his, fastidious dress, 'Bobby' occupied a number of minor Court positions but was never a political high-flyer.

Beerbohm executed several other caricatures of Lord Spencer during the early 1900s.

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