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

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YMSM 351
Portrait Sketch of Walter Sickert

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1887
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14")
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Portrait Sketch of Walter Sickert

Titles

The title suggested is as follows:

  • 'Portrait Sketch of Walter Sickert' (1980, YMSM).

Description

Portrait Sketch of Walter Sickert, photograph, 1969?
Portrait Sketch of Walter Sickert, photograph, 1969?

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.

Sitter

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) met Whistler about 1882, and left the Slade School of Art to become Whistler's pupil and assistant.

Portrait Sketch of Walter Sickert, photograph, 1969?
Portrait Sketch of Walter Sickert, photograph, 1969?
Sketch Portrait of Walter Sickert, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, photograph, 1980
Sketch Portrait of Walter Sickert, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, photograph, 1980

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