Item 7: Douglas Glass. Photograph of Max Beerbohm (1947)

Apart from his stint as theater critic for The Saturday Review (1898–1910), Beerbohm avoided any form of work that bound him to a schedule or an employer’s demands. As a result, although born into affluence, he was often living on a reduced income once his father died in 1892. But regardless of how unsuited he was to earning a salary, he was always stunningly well suited—literally. From 1910 to the end of his life, except for the periods of the two world wars when he returned to England, he resided in Italy and found tailors there to produce linen suits for summer and tweeds for winter. This portrait by the New Zealand-born artist and photographer Douglas Glass captures the splendor of the latter.