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- Artist
- Walter Richard Sickert
- Birth and death dates
- 1860 - 1942
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Sickert was a painter, printmaker and teacher of German birth who became one of the most influential British artists of his day.
Sickert studied for a short time at the Slade School of Art under Whistler, who was an important influence. He later went to Paris and met Degas, who also had a powerful effect on Sickert's work. Sickert developed a personal version of Impressionism; he followed Degas' advice and painted in the studio, working from drawings and memory.
Sickert was an influential teacher at Westminster School of Art. Just before the start of World War One he founded the Camden Town Group of British painters. This group had been meeting informally since 1905, but was officially established in 1911. Sickert painted figures placed ambiguously on the border between respectability and poverty including many female nudes on beds, challenging the conventional approach to life painting.
In this painting of Norfolk Crescent in Bath, Sickert uses blue tones to create a still and peaceful atmosphere.
CP/TR 62
Sadler bequest
