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Name: Walter Richard Sickert
Birth Date: 1860
Death Date: 1942
Place of Birth: Munich, Germany
Place of Death: Bath, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter

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Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was one of England's greatest impressionist painters. His cityscapes and music hall scenes were frequently based, compositionally, on Degas's paintings. Walter Sickert was born in Munich to a Danish father, Oswald...


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He developed a personal version of Impressionism, favouring somber colouration that is sometimes strikingly unnatural in effect. Following Degas' advice, Sickert painted in the studio, working from drawings and memory as an escape from "the tyranny of...


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Apollo
Walter Sickert: A Life.
07/01/2005: 1,275 words, approx. 4 pages
Walter Sickert: A Life Matthew Sturgis HarperCollins Publishers 30 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 00 257083 1 Rebecca Daniels praises the way that Matthew Sturgis has forged an enthralling narrative from the life of a notoriously elusive painter. 'For he is...
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History Today
Beaverbrook - Sickert's 'political portrait.' (Walter Richard Sickert) (Art in Context.)
09/01/1994: 2,967 words, approx. 10 pages
My portrait is and remains a political portrait in the grand manner by a painter who appreciates and admires your policy'. So wrote Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) in 1935 to Lord Beaverbrook about one of his most striking and successful late portraits. ...
 


 

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