The Rural Dean
About this artwork
‘The Morning Post’ of 22 April 1937 described the setting of this painting as the sands at Broadstairs, where the Sickerts moved in 1934, but it could be Brighton or Hove. It shows Sickert and Thérèse Lessore, a painter herself and the third wife of Sickert, striding out on a stone pathway behind a row of beach huts. He sports a trim beard, a baggy tweed suit, a flat cap and a cane tucked under his arm. Like many of Sickert's paintings, it was painted after a photograph.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Walter Richard SickertEnglish (1860 - 1942)
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title:The Rural Dean
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date created:About 1932
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:61.10 x 41.80 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Bequeathed by Dr R.A. Lillie 1977
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accession number:GMA 1972
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glossary:
Walter Richard Sickert
Walter Richard Sickert
Sickert was born in Munich to parents of Danish origin but British nationality. He settled in London with his parents in 1868. Sickert initially trained as an actor but in 1881 he began studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He was a pupil of Whistler and also worked with Degas in Paris...
