Walter Richard Sickert, ARA (1860-1942)

Walter Richard Sickert, ARA (1860-1942)
The Passing Funeral
Signed Rd St (lower right), inscribed "The passing funeral" (lower left), and further inscribed Cowen-Boston/ Dart. PK. Arll/ High Int/ K. Martin (upper right)
Pen and brown ink with pencil and red crayon
35.5 x 26.5cm

Provenance:
Mrs Rowley Bristow;
The Collection of Dr S. Leonard Simpson;
And by descent

Literature:
Wendy Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006), p.379, no.365.4

Wendy Baron dates the present work to c.1912-1913, and notes that `This swiftly penned study is of the same upright format and size as the etching [Bromberg 153]. Mrs [Rowley] Bristow, as Florence White a pupil of the artist at Rowlandson House, told [me] that Sickert made many versions of this subject (figures watching or waiting while a funeral passes in the street below), altering the figure groupings at will.`