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.
Notes:
1: 'MacDonald, Margaret, 'Whistler como artista, maestro y amigo', in Dempsey, Andrew (ed.), James McNeill Whistler. Walter Richard Sickert, La Caixa, Madrid, 1998, p. 27.
Last updated: 29th October 2020 by Margaret
