SICKERT, Walter Richard (1860-1942), Ink on Paper

Artist: Walter Sickert (1860-1942), British

Title: "Merchant of Venice", from the Old Vic Production

Date: 1933

Medium: Original Drawing

Materials: Pen on Paper

Markings: Signed on the lower right corner

Dimensions: 12” x 8-3/4”

Framed: Yes, item has remained in the original frame when acquired by Mr. Prince and Mr. Hemphill, Jr.;

Inventory No: NAPT.1999.000031

Provenance: Neal Prince Trust u/a/d 10.18.1999

Mr. Neal A. Prince

Mr. Neal A. Prince and Mr. Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.

Roy Davis Gallery, 231 East 60^th Street, New York, New York 10022

R.H. Spurr, Esquire, Southport, England

Provenance: Source documentation for the Fine Arts Appraisal for Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr., May 12, 1964, Page 11/13

Footnote: Provenance is fully noted within Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. (a/k/a Burt) insurance policy executed by Neal A. Prince in 1964 and is filed with the Smithsonian Institute American Archives in Box 6, in Folders 13-18.

Museums and Public Art Galleries that hold said Artist works:

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Tate Gallery
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Walter Sickert (1860-1942), British

Mr. Sickert was born into a long line of artists and chose to follow in the family tradition. He moved to London with his parents in 1868 and studied at the Slade School of Art under Whistler. Rather than painting from life, Sickert painted from preliminary sketches, a tip given to him by Degas while in Paris, France. He was also part of a group of artists inspired by the dark and impressionistic paintings and engravings of Walter Sickert's, who worked in this working class section of London, know as The Camden Town Group. The group held three exhibitions at Carfax Gallery in 1911 and 1912. The shows were a failure in financial terms, and the member artists eventually merged with several other small groups to form the London Group. In additional to this, he painted portraits, landscapes and genre scenes. As a teacher, Sickert had tremendous influence on the twentieth century British artist. Mr. Sickert died in 1942.