Sickert

[sik-ert]

noun

1. Walter Richard, 1860–1942, English painter.

Sickert

/ ˈsɪkət /

noun

1. Walter Richard. 1860–1942, British impressionist painter, esp of scenes of London music halls

Example Sentences

“Duncan now stands at his easel beside Balthus, Hopper, Bonnard and Sickert.”

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Speculators as to the Ripper's identity have suggested scores of potential perpetrators, with the five front-runners being Queen Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence; Michael Ostrog, a Russian doctor who was detained as a "homicidal maniac"; lawyer, schoolteacher and cricketer Montague John Druitt; a suspect known as both Nathan Kaminsky and David Cohen; and Walter Sickert, a highly regarded British painter.

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Her seemingly traditional approach — her commitment to oil; her comfort with engaging the European lineage, from Goya to Degas to the British Post-Impressionist Walter Sickert — is itself a kind of trompe l’oeil, serving the liberating purpose of painting Black subjects according purely to her own imagination.

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In the shadowy “The Visit by Lamplight,” two women sit, shrouded in inky ominousness, rendered with paint handling so uncharacteristically brusque it recalls Walter Sickert, the British painter of disquiet.

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Based on that DNA analysis and other clues she said the killer was the painter Walter Sickert, though many experts believe those letters to be fake.

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