Les Cabotins: Portrait of Eric Forbes-Robertson, the actor, with the artist

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Haydn Reynolds Mackey (1881-1979)
Les Cabotins: Portrait of Eric Forbes-Robertson, the actor, with the artist
signed and dated 'Hadyn Mackey.1932.' (lower right) and further signed, inscribed and numbered 'Haydn Mackey/88 Finborough Road. S.W. 10/'Les Cabotins':/(Messrs. Eric Forbes Robertson & Haydn Mackey)/1.' (on the reverse of the backboard)
oil on panel
33½ x 25½ in. (85 x 64.7 cm.)

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London, Chelsea Arts Club, 1932.
London, Royal Academy, 1933, no. 692.

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The present work is a double portrait of the two artists, Eric Forbes-Robertson (1865-1935), standing in evening dress, and Haydn Mackey, rather scruffily dressed and seated at his side. The title Les Cabotins, or the Ham Actors, refers to the elegant Forbes-Robertson who was a member of a well-known acting family.

The poster hanging above the figures, advertising the 1895 production of Don Quixote at the Lyceum, was designed by William Nicholson and his brother-in-law, James Pryde, who collaborated at the time as the Beggarstaff Brothers. Mackey mirrors the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, with that of himself and the dandy Forbes-Robertson.