| Administrative History | Walter Sickert, painter and etcher, was born in 1860. His work often featured urban life, domestic interiors, theatres and working people. He was born in Munich but his family moved to England in 1868. He studied at King's College, London and spent three years on the stage 1877-81. In 1881 he enrolled for a year's course at the Slade School under Legros. From 1885-1922 he lived for part of each year in Dieppe, but he was also established in Fitzroy Street in London at the centre of the Fitzroy Group and its successors the Camden Town Group and the London Group. He exhibited widely in London and also in Brussels and Paris. A writer of art criticism, he also taught at several private schools and at Westminster School of Art 1908-12 and 1915-18. He left London for Thanet in 1934, finally settling at Bathampton where he died in 1942. |
| Custodial History | Purchased from Bonhams Sale, 3 March 1976 (lots 132 and 138), formerly in the collection of Russell S Reeve. |