Social Victorians/People/Sickert

Also Known As

• Family name: Sickert

Demographics

• Nationality: He, born in Munich, but in 1868 his family moved to England and became citizens

Family

• Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942)
• Ellen Cobden (1848–)
• Christine Angus (– 1920)
• Thérèse Lessore ()

Relations

• Helena Swanwick was Walter Sickert's sister.
• Sickert's brother-in-law was T. Fisher Unwin, who published Annie Besant's autobiography and Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

Acquaintances

• Edgar Degas
• Edward W. Godwin
• Charles Bradlaugh (painted his portrait twice)

Friends

• Clementine Ogilvy Hozier, who married Winston Churchill in 1908; through her, eventually, Winston Churchill
• Lord Beaverbrook
• Elwin Hawthorne
• Florence Pash

Organizations and Social Networks

• Slade School
• James Whistler's student and etching assistant
• New English Art Club
• Camden Town Group

Timeline

1868, Sickert's family moved to Britain and became citizens.

1881, Walter Sickert played the Ghost of Hamlet's father in Henry Irving's production of Hamlet at the Lyceum Theatre.

1885 June 10, Walter Sickert and Ellen Cobden married.

1899, Walter Sickert and Ellen Cobden divorced.

1911, Walter Sickert and Christine Angus married.

1926, Walter Sickert and Thérèse Lessore married.

References

General Background

• "Walter Sickert." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sickert (accessed August 2020).