Seated girl, Wellington House
Maker
(artist)
1860-1942
1860-1942
Title
Seated girl, Wellington House
Date of Production
(circa) 1910 - 1914
Medium
black chalk on wove paper, with several pinholes at each corner and at upper and lower centre edges
Dimensions
Height: 38 cm
Width: 28.2 cm
Width: 28.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1935.SC.37
Mode of Acquisition
Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
The title refers to the studio Sickert acquired in 1908 at 247 Hampstead Road, Camden Town, which he christened the ‘Wellington House Academy’ in honour of the drawing classes he held there. Sickert urged his students to pose their models in real surroundings and he often favoured cheaply furnished bedroom interiors. Here, he depicts the contemplative young model on an iron bedstead with a small dressing table behind. The outline of a standing male figure can also be seen in the background.
Provenance
purchased from the artist by Percy Moore Turner of the Independent Gallery (London), 12 July 1924 (£10 10s); purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947), 18 December 1924 (with D.1935.SC.19, 38 and 39); Courtauld Gift 1935
Exhibition History
Special Display - Works by Sickert, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 05/10/2007-20/01/2008
Camden Town Group, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 16/04/1980-29/06/1980
Watercolours, drawings and engravings from the Courtauld Collection (no catalogue), Nottingham University, 1969 ...More
Decade 1910-1920, City Art Gallery, Leeds; Reading Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Glasgow Art Gallery; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 29/05/1965-23/09/1965
Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, December 1959-April 1960
Sickert, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1957
Sickert, Islington Public Library, 1951
Exhibition of the life work of Walter Richard Sickert., Leeds Art Gallery and Temple Newsam, 28/03/1942-31/05/1942
Sickert, CEMA travelling exhibition, 1941-42
Sickert, National Gallery, London, 1941 (August)
Exhibition of drawings by Walter Sickert, Independent Gallery, London, 1924 ...Less
Camden Town Group, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 16/04/1980-29/06/1980
Watercolours, drawings and engravings from the Courtauld Collection (no catalogue), Nottingham University, 1969 ...More
Decade 1910-1920, City Art Gallery, Leeds; Reading Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Glasgow Art Gallery; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 29/05/1965-23/09/1965
Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, December 1959-April 1960
Sickert, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1957
Sickert, Islington Public Library, 1951
Exhibition of the life work of Walter Richard Sickert., Leeds Art Gallery and Temple Newsam, 28/03/1942-31/05/1942
Sickert, CEMA travelling exhibition, 1941-42
Sickert, National Gallery, London, 1941 (August)
Exhibition of drawings by Walter Sickert, Independent Gallery, London, 1924 ...Less
Literature
Salmon, Dimitri, Percy Moore Turner, Précieux Conseiller de Samuel and Elizabeth Courtauld, Fondation Louis Vuitton 2019
pp. 33, 34n155, 36, no. 10 on p. 68
illus. no. 10 on p. 68
Baron, Wendy, Sickert: paintings and drawings, New Haven and London, 2006
no. 383.3
illus. p. 388?
Camden Town Group, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980
cat. no. 83
dated 1911-1912 ...More
Decade 1910-1920, City Art Gallery, Leeds; Reading Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Glasgow Art Gallery; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 1965
cat. no. 34
Browse, Lillian, Sickert, London 1960
p. 98
dated c. 1914
Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 177
dated c. 1910
Exhibition of the life work of Walter Richard Sickert., Leeds Art Gallery and Temple Newsam, 1942
cat. no. 109
erroneously as in the coll. of Mrs George Swinton
Sickert, National Gallery, London, August 1941
cat. no. 112
Exhibition of drawings by Walter Sickert, Independent Gallery, London, 1924
cat. no. 20
as 'Wellington House' ...Less
pp. 33, 34n155, 36, no. 10 on p. 68
illus. no. 10 on p. 68
Baron, Wendy, Sickert: paintings and drawings, New Haven and London, 2006
no. 383.3
illus. p. 388?
Camden Town Group, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980
cat. no. 83
dated 1911-1912 ...More
Decade 1910-1920, City Art Gallery, Leeds; Reading Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Glasgow Art Gallery; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 1965
cat. no. 34
Browse, Lillian, Sickert, London 1960
p. 98
dated c. 1914
Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 177
dated c. 1910
Exhibition of the life work of Walter Richard Sickert., Leeds Art Gallery and Temple Newsam, 1942
cat. no. 109
erroneously as in the coll. of Mrs George Swinton
Sickert, National Gallery, London, August 1941
cat. no. 112
Exhibition of drawings by Walter Sickert, Independent Gallery, London, 1924
cat. no. 20
as 'Wellington House' ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, described: “Wellington House”; lower right, brown ink, signed: “Sickert”; lower left corner, graphite, acc. no.: “37.35”. Verso: lower right, graphite: “15 1/8 x 17 ¼ / 13”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, described: “Wellington House”; lower right, brown ink, signed: “Sickert”; lower left corner, graphite, acc. no.: “37.35”. Verso: lower right, graphite: “15 1/8 x 17 ¼ / 13”.
Collector's mark: none.
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