Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)

Portrait of Gwen ffrangcon-Davies

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Portrait of Gwen ffrangcon-Davies
signed and inscribed 'G ffrangcon-Davies Sickert' (lower edge)
oil on canvas
16 x 11 in. (40.6 x 28 cm.)
Painted circa 1935

Provenance

with Leicester Galleries, London.

Lot Essay

A portrait of the actress, Gwen ffrangcon-Davies, who Sickert painted throughout the 1930s, often in costume from photographs in her photograph album. Her most famous role was that of Florence Nightingale in the 1929 production of The Lady with the Lamp, which toured the country.
(see W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p.383).

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