Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Sent from heaven to finish all your educations” was how Walter Sickert defined himself in 1907 to young ...
'It is Sunday afternoon," begins George Orwell's celebrated essay, "The Decline of the English Murder". "The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long ...
LONDON -- Walter Sickert (1860-1942) has a good claim to being the father of modern British art. A student of Whistler, he was a friend of Degas, knew Manet, and through his own work transmitted ...
Walter Sickert was put forward as an possible suspect in the Jack The Ripper killings because of his set of paintings known as The Camden Town Murders. The Blind Sea Captain, left, is thought to have ...
Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Walter Sickert was already 35 years old when, in 1895, he painted the first of the many pictures of Venetian scenes that you can see ...
Walter Sickert introduced Victorian Britain to Modern art, yet is best known for his drab-toned nudes on iron bedsteads. Mary Miers considers the career of an individualist who was both radical and ...
Sickert didn’t go in for glamour or flattery and the subjects of many of his best works are things seen off to the side, a bit inconsequential. From 1952: The critic ponders the plight of professional ...
A very rarely seen painting by the British artist Walter Sickert, which was once owned by the Hollywood “gangster” actor Edward G. Robinson, is going on sale in London on 26 September. Ennui (1913) is ...
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak profiles Walter Sickert and John Singer Sargent, two giants of Edwardian painting who could not have been more different. Show more Art critic Waldemar Januszczak ...
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