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Camden Town Portrait

SICKERT, Walter Richard (1860 - 1942)

Media: oil on canvas

Size: 51.2 x 40.8 cm

Acquired: 1956; Purchase

Accession Number: NMW A 192

In 1911 Sickert was closely involved with the foundation of the short-lived but influential Camden Town Group, whose other members included Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore, and Robert Bevan. This smokey scene with broken, dark colours is one of several interiors with a figure and an iron bedstead painted in 1915-16 at Sickert's studio in 8 Fitzroy Street. Here, the figure is a fully realised portrait. The woman's hat lies on the cupboard behind her head. Given through the Contemporary Art Society for Wales in memory of Captain G.C.H. Crawshay, 1956.

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Sara Huws Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales Staff
6 September 2016, 09:13

Hi Alice,

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Sara
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Alice Foster
5 September 2016, 17:21
Wonderful painting. Do we know anything about the sitter?
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