Walter Sickert
The Drawing Class, 1912, c.
Pencil, pen and ink with watercolour and squaring-up on paper
30.5 x 24.7 cm
12 1/8 x 9 3/4 in
12 1/8 x 9 3/4 in
Copyright The Artist
This drawing probably depicts one of Sickert's drawing classes at 140 Hampstead Road. He dubbed the address Rowlandson House and indulged his passion for teaching there between 1910 and 1914....
This drawing probably depicts one of Sickert's drawing classes at 140 Hampstead Road. He dubbed the address Rowlandson House and indulged his passion for teaching there between 1910 and 1914. Though the drawing has been squared for transfer, no similar painting is known to exist. The identity of the 'Miss White' inscribed at lower right is as yet unknown; she was presumably a pupil at the school, and it is probably her address (233 Kentish Town Road) which is inscribed in the lower margin. Kentish Town is a short walk from the address of Sickert's academy.
Provenance
With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1939-40Private Collection, UK