Portrait Sketch of Walter Sickert
Artist
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(1834 - 1903)
Date1894-1895
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions45.8 × 35.6 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Donated by the artist, 1904.
Object number281
DescriptionOf Danish and Irish descent, Sickert’s original chosen career was acting, but he abandoned this in favour of painting and attended the Slade School of Art in 1881. He soon left these studies to become a pupil of Whistler and also his assistant where among other duties he prepared Whistler’s refined palette. Degas’ influence saw the expanding of his range of subject matter to include cockney music halls where, like Degas, Sickert made drawings on the spot. (JO'D)On View
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler