Both Walter Richard Sickert and James McNeill Whistler are
associated with British art history and the city of London, although
neither artist was born there. The setting for Whistler’s studio is a basement room which Whistler used as his studio in London where the artist had settled in 1859.
One of the acknowledged leaders of late nineteenth-century British Modernism, Whistler was Walter Sickert’s mentor and friend during the early years of Sickert’s artistic career. Sickert attended Whistler’s studio daily to watch and assist him at work, often sketching and painting Whistler’s subjects.
Sickert’s palette, too, was influenced by Whistler, in his choice of subdued, muted colours restricted to a few tones, such as those used here. Whistler’s studio was painted some 18 years after the artists’ falling out and some 12 years after Whistler’s death.
ENTRANCE TO 8 FITZROY STREET, WHISTLER'S STUDIO (Sickert):
(pen and brown ink heightened with white)
JDB werkte in het atelier waar Whistler had gewerkt (Fitzroystreet 8)
One of the acknowledged leaders of late nineteenth-century British Modernism, Whistler was Walter Sickert’s mentor and friend during the early years of Sickert’s artistic career. Sickert attended Whistler’s studio daily to watch and assist him at work, often sketching and painting Whistler’s subjects.
Sickert’s palette, too, was influenced by Whistler, in his choice of subdued, muted colours restricted to a few tones, such as those used here. Whistler’s studio was painted some 18 years after the artists’ falling out and some 12 years after Whistler’s death.
ENTRANCE TO 8 FITZROY STREET, WHISTLER'S STUDIO (Sickert):
(pen and brown ink heightened with white)
JDB werkte in het atelier waar Whistler had gewerkt (Fitzroystreet 8)
Whistler schilder in dit atelier o.a.het Arrangement in Grey and
Black, No.
1, beter bekend als Whistler’s mother in 1871.
“Oscar Wilde heeft eens opgemerkt dat mist in Londen een
onbekend verschijnsel was voor dat Whistler het had geschilderd. Het was er
natuurlijk vaak genoeg mistig geweest, maar de hoedanigheden van die mist waren
gewoon minder opgevallen toen onze manier van kijken nog niet door Whistler
doeken was bepaald” (20). De Botton.
AN EYE ON FLANDERS: THE GRAPHIC ART OF JULES DE BRUYCKER © Stephen
Goddard, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence,KS 66047
The Great War
JDB woont tijdelijk in de Fitzgerald Avenue 9 dichtbij de
Whistler Studio in Fitzroy Street 8.
JDB heeft het in zijn brieven over de Fitzroy.
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