Technique

Sketch Portrait of Walter Sickert, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane

Thinly painted, with broad brushstrokes, the paint barely scrubbed in, and the canvas showing through at times: the free brushstrokes are rather similar to Sickert's work, but the paint is applied less thickly.

MacDonald commented:

'Whistler painted two head-and-shoulder studies of Sickert. With their broad, square brush-strokes, and warm brown tones, they appear more like self-portraits, suggesting the influence of the younger man on the master's work.' 1

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.