Beaverbrook - Sickert's 'political portrait.' (Walter Richard Sickert) (Art in Context.)

History Today | September 1, 1994| | Copyright

My portrait is and remains a political portrait in the grand manner by a painter who appreciates and admires your policy'. So wrote Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) in 1935 to Lord Beaverbrook about one of his most striking and successful late portraits.

When Sickert painted his celebrated portrait of Beaverbrook he had become, in his early seventies, a curious mixture of grey-haired enfant terrible and unpredictable Grand Old Man of British art. His reputation rested on his paintings of the Victorian music-hall, his views of Venice and Dieppe and on his Camden ...

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