δ Beerbohm (Max) Mr Reginald McKenna, black chalk and watercolour on wove paper, signed and inscribed, sheet 320 x 160 mm (12 1/2 6 1/4 in), under glass, laid onto mount support, some scattered spotting and surface dirt, framed

Provenance:
Ernst Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, London;
P.E.R. English, Esq. (purchased at the 1957 exhibition)

Exhibited:
Leicester Galleries, London, Max Beerbohm Memorial Exhibition, June 1957, no. 127

⁂ Mckenna was a prominent British banker and Liberal politician. His first Cabinet post under Henry Campbell-Bannerman was as President of the Board of Education, after which he served as First Lord of the Admiralty. His most important roles were as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the premiership of H. H. Asquith.

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