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Seated girl, Wellington House

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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

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.

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