Lot 27
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Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
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Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)

The Housekeeper's Niece (after John Gilbert)

Details
Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1860-1942)
The Housekeeper's Niece (after John Gilbert)
signed 'Sickert.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 24 in. (55.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1931-2.
Literature
The Illustrated London News, 9 April 1932, illustrated.
W. Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, London, 2006, p. 510, no. 632 (as whereabouts unknown).
Exhibited
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Paintings by Richard Sickert A.R.A., April - May 1932, no. 12.
Special Notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The present composition is one of a series of works known within Sickert's oeuvre as his Echoes which were painted from the late 1920s onwards. The Housekeeper's Niece is painted in the manner of, indeed after, the Victorian painter Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897). Gilbert is remembered as a 'master of romantic and melodramatic subjects' and for his depiction of 'the dazzling saloons of the aristocracy' which clearly caught Sickert's imagination (see W. Baron, Sickert Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 502).

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