Chris Beetles Gallery

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Mr Frank Wallace

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

Price

£2,750

Signed

Signed and inscribed with title

Medium

Pen and ink

Dimensions

12 x 4 ½ inches

Provenance

Collection of Eva Reichmann

Literature

Rupert Hart-Davis, a Catalogue of the Caricatures Of
Max Beerbohm, London: Macmillan, 1972, No 1734

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-2014',
November 2014 - January 2015, No 75

This is possibly a caricature of Harold Frank Wallace (1881-1962), the painter, illustrator and writer, who specialised in country pursuits. While working as a barrister, he enjoyed the recreations of shooting and deerstalking, and recorded these in a series of illustrated books, beginning with Stalks Abroad (1908). A journey to the Far East resulted in Big Game of Central and Western China (1913). By the early 1920s, he had become a member of the Zoological Society and the Royal Geographical Society. Through that decade, he developed as a painter of watercolours, which he exhibited in London and Edinburgh.

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