La Vallée de l'Eaulne
Walter Richard Sickert, RA (Munich 1860 – Bathampton 1942)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1913
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
330 x 406 mm (13 x 16 in)
Place of origin
Normandy
Order this imageCollection
Fenton House, London
NT 1449112
Caption
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Sickert became an important artist and cultural figure in his own lifetime. His formative years were influenced by Whistler and Degas, but he later came to move away from Whistler’s instruction to paint from nature, and started to paint in the studio from drawings made on the spot. The artist Spencer Gore was responsible to tempting Sickert to move back to Britain from Dieppe. He established himself in rooms in Camden Town and his regular visitors became known as the ‘Fitzroy Street Group’, which later evolved into the Camden Town Group. Throughout his life, Sickert was a proactive, political force in artistic circles, but also found renown as a teacher and writer.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, La Vallée de l'Eaulne by Walter Richard Sickert, RA (Munich 1860 – Bathampton 1942), 1913. The Eaulne Valley is in Normandy, not far from where Sickert had lived, in Dieppe.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Peter Barkworth (1929 - 2006)
Credit line
Fenton House, The Peter Barkworth Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Walter Richard Sickert, RA (Munich 1860 – Bathampton 1942), artist