Caption upper right: His Excellency the American Ambassador.
Signed lower right, Sir Bernard Partridge with subjects identify (label) and artist inscriptions verso: Robert W. Bingham, American Ambassador to Great Britain (1934-36).
Inscribed lower right: Requested March 21, 1935, Received May 16, 1935. Sir Bernard Partridge London Punch Magazine, London England.

Bernard Partridge was born in London on 11 October 1861, the youngest son of Professor Richard Partridge FRS, President of the Royal College of Surgeons and Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, and Fanny Turner. His uncle was John Partridge, Portrait Painter Extraordinary to Queen Victoria. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, with Arthur Conan Doyle.

Partridge freelanced as a cartoonist. His first published work appeared in Moonshine, and he also contributed cartoons and illustrations to Judy (from 1885), Playgoer, Black & White, Illustrated Bits, Illustrated London News, Lika Joko, Society, Vanity Fair (caricatures as "JBP"), Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, Lady's Pictorial, New Budget, Pick-Me-Up, Quiver and the Sketch. On George du Maurier's recommendation, Partridge first contributed to Punch in February 1891. He joined the staff later that year, and worked for the magazine for over fifty years, producing political and joke cartoons as well as theatre caricatures.

Partridge disliked using more than two figures in any cartoon, and tended to draw grandiose, statuesque figures in classical poses. He mostly worked in pen and ink on Smith's Board covered in "O.W." paper - usually 10 (13 in. He also exhibited oil paintings, watercolors and pastels, and was elected to the New English Art Club in 1893 and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolors in 1896. A member of the Chelsea Arts Club and the Athenaeum Club, he was knighted in 1925. Bernard Partridge died in London on 9 August 1945.
Source: Cartoons ac uk

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