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Sickert

American  
[sik-ert] / ˈsɪk ərt /

noun

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


Sickert British  
/ ˈsɪkət /

noun

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

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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.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 15, 2019

But performances at other parties were more successful, as Quentin Bell remembered Marjorie Strachey giving “obscenely comic renderings of nursery rhymes” and Sickert performing a version of Hamlet at Keynes’s Twelfth Night party, in 1923.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2015

Set up in 1913 by 32 artists including Lucien Pissarro, Walter Sickert and Harold Gilman, the group aimed to act as a counterbalance to institutions such as the Royal Academy.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2013

Ansgar Sickert, who heads Fraport's India operations, told Reuters in a telephone interview on Friday.

From Reuters ● Jun. 8, 2012

The sketch was exceedingly clever, painted in the broad, synthetic manner which Steer and Sickert had introduced into England as a natural reaction from the finicking, false exactitudes of the previous age.

From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett

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