Meet Lady Macbeth, Lord Beaverbrook and more colorful characters at Mobile Museum of Art

Posted on: December 10th, 2013

By: Tamara Ikenberg, AL.com
November 13, 2013

MOBILE, Alabama  —   Art collector Lord Beaverbrook, aka William Maxwell Aitken, was impish, influential and filthy rich.

But Beaverbrook, who lived from 1879 to 1964, was no cultivated art connoisseur. And he didn’t care.

As with all his other endeavors, the strong, stubborn and storied man marched to the beat of his own decisive drummer when it came to building his empire of masterpieces. Read full article on AL.com>>