Walter Sickert's Most Famous Paintings

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Walter Sickert was an influential British painter from the early 20th century who also became embroiled in the famous Jack the Ripper case. His paintings were a combination of Post-Impressionism and Modernism and he was also friends with a number of other high profile artists.

Indoor scenes with figurative work was the most common genre within his oeuvre, and Sickert was particularly skilled in capturing the lives of relatively ordinary people from the late 19th century through to the early 20th. Besides this, he also captured the world of theatre and music too, leaving content which is not too dissimilar to that of French illustrator, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The artist counted a number of prominent figures within his circle of friends and this led to some highly memorable portraits such as those of Aubrey Beardsley, King George V and Peggy Ashcroft. He would vary his style slightly across his career, using heavy paint later on, having initially derided such a method. The achievements of Sickert has certainly influenced a number of later British artists and exhibitions of his work are become more and more frequent. The greatest influence on young Sickert would be his teacher, James Whistler, from whom he took a good amount of technical guidance from, as well as being led on the types of content that he might feature within his work.

He would travel and live abroad at various times in his life, with France being the most prominent destination. French art would influence his artistic style as a result of this, and he would become friends with a number of prominent artists who had links to the Impressionist era. Back home he found inspiration in the dark British weather to move away from the Impressionist palettes towards something more suitable for the UK. He focused on the lives of ordinary Londoners and started to indicate more of a realist manner in some people's eyes. His lively social and personal life led to him being married three times and it is fair to say that he made the most of his eighty-odd years. Exhibitions and publications about his work appeared soon after his passing and have continued regularly ever since. He is also rightly mentioned as an influence on the lives of many other British artists who arrived in the later generations and some even knew him personally.

Walter was fortunate in his upbringing which brought about an impressive education that set him up for a successful career in whatever path he chose to take. He was initially expected to become an actor, but switched to his father's choice of art just as his acting career was starting to take off. He spoke French and German fluently which made European travel fairly easy and it also opened his eyes to different cultures from an early age. His father's role as a painter and engraver would eventually influence his son's life choices, but the two had very different artistic styles. Walter became highly contemporary and would use art in a more creative, less commercial manner which enabled him to build a far stronger reputation than his father could manage.