Social Victorians/People/Sickert
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Also Known As edit
- Family name: Sickert
Demographics edit
- Nationality: He, born in Munich, but in 1868 his family moved to England and became citizens
Residences edit
Family edit
- Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942)
- Ellen Cobden (1848–)
- Christine Angus (– 1920)
- Thérèse Lessore ()
Relations edit
- Helena Swanwick was Walter Sickert's sister.
- Sickert's brother-in-law was T. Fisher Unwin, who published Annie Besant's autobiography and Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy.[1]
Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies edit
Acquaintances edit
- Edgar Degas
- Edward W. Godwin
- Charles Bradlaugh (painted his portrait twice)
Friends edit
- Clementine Ogilvy Hozier, who married Winston Churchill in 1908; through her, eventually, Winston Churchill
- Lord Beaverbrook
- Elwin Hawthorne
- Florence Pash
Enemies edit
Organizations and Social Networks edit
- Slade School
- James Whistler's student and etching assistant
- New English Art Club
- Camden Town Group
Timeline edit
1868, Sickert's family moved to Britain and became citizens.
1881, Walter Sickert played the Ghost of Hamlet's father in Henry Irving's production of Hamlet at the Lyceum Theatre.[2]
1885 June 10, Walter Sickert and Ellen Cobden married.
1899, Walter Sickert and Ellen Cobden divorced.
1911, Walter Sickert and Christine Angus married.
1926, Walter Sickert and Thérèse Lessore married.
Questions and Notes edit
References edit
- ↑ Cornwell, Patricia. Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed. G.P. Putnam's, 2002: p. 96.
- ↑ Cornwell, p. 92.
General Background edit
- "Walter Sickert." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sickert (accessed August 2020).