The title suggested is as follows:
A head and shoulders study of a dark-haired young man in three-quarter view to right. The clothes and background are only roughly indicated.
Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) met Whistler about 1882, and left the Slade School of Art to become Whistler's pupil and assistant.
He commissioned Whistler to paint portraits of both his wife (see Arrangement in Violet and Pink: Mrs Walter Sickert [YMSM 337] and Green and Violet: Portrait of Mrs Walter Sickert [YMSM 338]) and himself (see Portrait of Walter Sickert [YMSM 349] and Sketch Portrait of Walter Sickert [YMSM 350]).
Last updated: 14th October 2020 by Margaret