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,
Framed:
Yes, item has remained in the original frame when acquired by Mr. Prince and Mr. Hemphill, Jr.;
Provenance: Neal A. Prince Trust u/a/d 10.18.1999
Mr. Neal Prince
Mr. Neal Prince and Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr.
Roy Davis
Gallery, 231 East 60th Street, New York, New York 10022
R.H. Spurr, Esquire, Southport, England
Footnoteč:
See below attached Links to further review Appraised Schedule for Item NAPT-00031
Institution Holdings: National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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.
