Walter Sickert

Beginning her editorship of Wheels, ES made other friendships, including those with Nancy Cunard , Nina Hamnett (whom she describes as generous and courageous), Walter Sickert (whose generosity and sense of fun she celebrates),...

By the time of the move to Tavistock Square, VW began to socialize more than she had in years. She circulated with Bloomsbury familiars and (re)acquainted herself with Rebecca West , Rose Macaulay ,...

At this time she began to meet people connected with the modernist movement, like Carrington and Mark Gertler . She met and sat for the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , and she also met the painter...

Having achieved a footing of friendship with Walter Sickert and the others of the Fitzroy Street Group , NH went on through Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell to get to know the members of the...

She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry at Guildford (where Lady Strachey led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with...

LOM 's friendships were many and strongly felt. Developed mainly through her salons and other creative associations, they swept in Lytton Strachey , Virginia Woolf , Roger Fry , Joseph Conrad , T. S. and...

EB began to study art in London with painter Walter Sickert (who helped to establish the Camden Town Group ).

The pencil portrait that Wyndham Lewis exhibited of Rebecca West in 1932 caused Walter Sickert to call him (in a telegram) the greatest portraitist of this or any other time.

Sickert painted her in 1915 or 1916, sitting smoking with Roald Kristian , in a work entitled The Little Tea Party.

In 1910 the committee was expanded and renamed the Contemporary Art Society. Its members then included the original four founders, plus Clive Bell and Ottoline's brother Henry Bentinck . 44 Bedford Square functioned as the...

NH began teaching, on three evenings a week, an evening art class at the Westminster Technical Institute in London, where Sickert had taught until his retirement.

Sickert took particular interest in her work around 1918, advising her on her painting techniques as well as on the merits of abating her social life (he was concerned that her purposeless excitement was having...

The Yellow Book published AL 's story Suggestion; in the same issue appeared her portrait by Walter Sickert .

JOH lived the rest of her life with her parents, although she occasionally took rooms on her own, and also travelled frequently. Primarily living and working in the family town house at 56 Lancaster Gate...

She classed Sickert as a literary painter, even while admitting that words could not touch or grasp the core of his paintings. Hermione Lee sees Sickert 's paintings of squalid London interiors as a major...