Social Victorians/People/Sickert
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
editFamily
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
editAcquaintances
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
editOrganizations and Social Networks
edit- Slade School
- James Whistler's student and etching assistant
- New English Art Club
- Camden Town Group
Timeline
edit1868, 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
editReferences
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).