Oil paint on canvas
Artworks
Sylvia Gosse
Camden Town Group
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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Walter Richard Sickert
Presented anonymously 1927
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist, painter
artist, printmaker
arts and entertainment
cane / walking stick
clothing and personal items
fine art and design, named works
German
hat
individuals: male
man
named individuals
nationality
natural phenomena
objects
people
portraits
shadow
Sickert, Walter Richard
society
standing
work and occupations
Young, William Drummond  and Edward Drummond, photograph, ‘Portrait Photograph of Walter Richard Sickert’ 1923
<p>Sylvia Gosse first met Sickert in 1908. He taught her at his art school at Rowlandson House. They developed a warm friendship which was to last until Sickert’s death in 1942.</p><p>This portrait is based on a photograph of Sickert taken in 1923 in a professional photographer’s studio. Sickert is shown as the professional artist he had then become, wearing a top hat and smart overcoat. In contrast to the tradition of male artists painting their female associates, in this portrait the woman paints her male mentor.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
Walter Richard Sickert
support: 508 × 305 mm
frame: 668 × 466 × 65 mm
Presented anonymously 1927
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<span class="text13">Sylvia Gosse first met Sickert in 1908. </span><span class="text0">
</span><span class="text14">He taught her at his art school      at </span><span class="text13">Rowlandson House. They developed  a warm      friendship which was to last </span><span class="text0">
until      Sickert’s death in 1942.  </span>
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<span class="text0">This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> is based on a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> </span><span class="text15">of Sickert taken in 1923 in a professional      photographer’s studio. Sickert is shown  </span><span class="text0">as      the professional artist he had then become, wearing a top hat and smart      overcoat. In contrast to the tradition  of male artists <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> their      female </span><span class="text13">associates, in this portrait the woman</span><span class="text0"> paints her male mentor.  </span>
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actions: postures and motions adults artist, painter artist, printmaker arts and entertainment cane / walking stick clothing and personal items fine art and design, named works German hat individuals: male man named individuals nationality natural phenomena objects people portraits shadow Sickert, Walter Richard society standing work and occupations Young, William Drummond  and Edward Drummond, photograph, ‘Portrait Photograph of Walter Richard Sic