26 Works, Today, May 31st. is Walter Richard Sickert’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #149

Walter Richard Sickert, A.R.A. 1860 – 1942
LANDING FROM THE BOAT, c. 1930
Pencil and oil on canvas
51 by 76cm.; 20 by 30in.
Private collection

Walter Richard Sickert (Born Munich, 31 May 1860; died Bathampton, Somerset, 22 January 1942), was a British painter, printmaker, teacher, and critic, one of the most important figures of his time in British art. He was born in Germany of a Danish-German father and an Anglo-Irish mother and his outlook was appropriately cosmopolitan. The family settled in London in 1868…

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