Hay carts and the last working horses in central London, houses of the rich in St John’s Wood, country views from East Devon during summer visits.
Camden Town
Member of the Fitzroy Street and Camden Town Groups, he recorded the final years of the working horse in London, and landscapes in southern England.
Paintings by Walter Sickert and Spencer Gore of the inside of music halls between 1888-1914, where ordinary people went for entertainment.
An associate of the Camden Town Group, many of his paintings show Brighton, sometimes known as London-on-Sea.
Full access to this series about the group founded by Walter Sickert and friends, with contents, and an index of major themes.
Main themes of the group include views of everyday London, its music halls, mundane domestic interiors, and inevitable portraits.
Everyday domestic scenes, the music hall, Pierrots performing at Brighton, and townscapes are among his paintings made after the Camden Town Group.
Initially, Sickert had tried to make a career in theatre before painting. He loved music halls, and painted many during the late 19th century.
Three misfits: Lucien Pissarro, a Neo-Impressionist landscape painter and print-maker; Maxwell Lightfoot, brilliant but scathingly critical of the others; Walter Taylor, friend of Douglas Fox Pitt.
He became a close friend of Lucien Pissarro, joined the Camden Town Group as its secretary. He later became Director of the Tate Gallery, and painted flower arrangements.
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