Max Beerbohm
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Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm 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
From The Critic 1901
Blue plaque at 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, London
Max Beerbohm, self-caricature (1897)
Beerbohm caricatured by Walter Sickert in Vanity Fair (1897)
Florence Kahn (actress)
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Florence Kahn, Lady Beerbohm was an American actress and the first wife of caricaturist and parodist Sir Max Beerbohm.
Max Beerbohm
…younger generation is knocking at the door; and as I open it there steps spritely in the incomparable Max". In 1904 Beerbohm met the American actress Florence Kahn. In 1910 they married and moved to Rapallo in Italy, partly as an escape from the social demands and the expense of living in London. Here they remained…
Florence Kahn in Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken in 1900
Florence Beerbohm drawn in about 1918 by Max Beerbohm