An associate of the Camden Town Group, many of his paintings show Brighton, sometimes known as London-on-Sea.
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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.
Although never a member of the Camden Town Group, he was a close associate who was an active painter, as well as being a patron, collector and advocate.
A pupil of Sickert, his painting are high in chroma and influenced by Post-Impressionism. He has sadly become largely forgotten today.
Completed his training in 1908, then progressed rapidly to Fauvist landscapes. Exhibited at the 1913 Armory Exhibition in New York, but dead in 1914.
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