From yachting in Cowes, moving east along the Channel coast to end at the extreme eastern tip of Kent, with paintings from William Dyce, Walter Sickert, Paul Nash, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith and others.
Sickert
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.
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.
Mr Punch and his wife Judy, and the crocodile as acted by puppets and itinerant players, and circus clowns. Paintings by Cézanne, Renoir and others.
Maurice Prendergast,Henri-Edmond Cross, Martín Rico, Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent, and others paint the canals.
Pierrot and Harlequin went on to be clowns in the circus, and Pulcinella became Mr Punch in popular Punch and Judy shows. And they live on still.
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.
