Mr Sheepshanks' House, Bath

Details

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
Mr Sheepshanks' House, Bath
signed with initials and inscribed 'Rd. St. A.R.A./Bath/Camden/Crescent' (lower right) and inscribed again 'Mr Sheepshank's House' (lower left)
pen, ink and watercolour
12 x 7½ in. (30.5 x 19 cm.)
Executed circa 1916-1918.

Provenance

Sir Hugh Walpole.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of the collection of the late Sir Hugh Walpole, April 1945, no. 129.

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Lot Essay

Mr Sheepshanks was the brother of the distinguished astronomer Richard Sheepshanks who was Sickert's maternal grandfather. The present work is a study for Mr Sheepshanks' House, Camden Crescent, Bath (Durban Museum and Art Gallery, see W. Baron, Sickert, London, 1973, p. 373, no. 374).

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