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Lot description
Charles A. Buchel, British 1872-1950- Portrait of Henry Beerbohm Tree in Ulysses, Act III, Scene II (1902); oil on canvas, signed CHAS. A. BUCHEL' (lower right), 45 x 28.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: Buchel is best-known for his portraits of actors, having been taken on by the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1898 and subsequently working with him for the next sixteen years. He painted many of the stars of his day including Lily Langtrey, Henry Irving and Radclyffe Hall. His portrait of Tree’s co-star in this same production, Nancy Price as Calypso, is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum [S.94-1986]. His portraits are in The National Portrait Gallery, RADA, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Museum of London, the V&A, and many other public collections. There are 73 theatre-related works by him in the V&A collection alone.