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

Fitzroy Square

Details
Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Fitzroy Square
signed 'Sickert' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1913-16
Provenance
Forrest Hewit, thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Richard Sickert, June 1929, no.109.
Manchester, City Art Gallery (on long-term loan).

Lot Essay

Sickert had several studios in Fitzroy Street, off Fitzroy Square, between 1905 and 1919. He kept a room at 15 Fitzroy Street and taught from a private studio at 8 Fitzroy Street, which he acquired in the late summer of 1915.

We are very grateful to Dr. Wendy Baron for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Forrest Hewit (1870-1956), the director of the Calico Printers Association, was a figure and landscape painter who studied under Sickert. He was a regular exhibitor at various institutions between 1925-40, including the New English Art Club, the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Arts.

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