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

The Property of MRS. T. ROWLAND

Details

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

The Three Drummers or The Three Imperialists

signed upper right Sickert, oil on canvas
11½ x 15¼in. (29.2 x 39.3cm.)

Painted circa 1890

Provenance

Mrs. Phyllis Duveen
Arthur Jeffress, London
Mrs. Prince Littler, by whom bequeathed to the present owner

Literature

L. Browse, Sickert, London, 1960, p.64
W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, no.47(2)

Exhibited

London, Redfern Gallery, Early Paintings by Richard Sickert, 1936, no.14
London, Redfern Gallery, Early Paintings by Richard Sickert, 1937, no.33
London, Fine Art Society, Sickert Loan Exhibition, May-June 1973, no.17: this exhibition travelled to Edinburgh, June 1973

Lot Essay

The present work is the only painting of the Bedford Music Hall to depict the three Lloyd sisters, Rosie, Gracie and Alice. Bella Orchard, the girls' cousin appears to have left the group when Rosie's sisters were old enough to go on stage. The original Sisters Lloyd, Rosie and Bella Orchard, are the subject of a group of paintings and studies from 1888-9
(see W. Baron, loc. cit.)

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