Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.1023
Caricature of Walter Sickert

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: Fine Art Society, London
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: beige laid paper
Size: 3 15/16 x 6 1/8" (100 x 155 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: 'Caricature of Walter Sickert by Whistler 1885 -' (in Sickert's hand) and v.: 'W. R. Sickert' (in an unknown hand)

Caricature of Walter Sickert

Provenance

  • 1885: acquired by Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942)
  • Date unknown: said to have been owned by the Galerie Ernest Arnold in Dresden, probably under the manager Ludwig Wilhelm Gutbier (1873-1951).
  • Date unknown: said to have been owned by Gustav Engelbrecht (b. 1848), Hamburg.
  • 1924: sold at auction, Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin, 28-29 October 1924 (lot 680, repr.).
  • 1937: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1937 (lot 24), bought by 'Ferrars'.
  • Date unknown: with Leicester Galleries, London (label).
  • 1977: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1977 (lot 8);
  • In or after 1977 : acquired by the Fine Art Society, London.

Catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1023).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 21st February 2021 by Margaret