Sickert

[ sik-ert ]

noun

1. Walter Richard, 1860–1942, English painter.

Sickert

/ ˈsɪkət /

noun

1. SickertWalter Richard18601942MBritishARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Walter Richard. 1860–1942, British impressionist painter, esp of scenes of London music halls

Example Sentences

“Duncan now stands at his easel beside Balthus, Hopper, Bonnard and Sickert.”

From New York Times

Speculators as to the Ripper's identity have suggested scores of potential perpetrators, with the five front-runners being Queen Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence; Michael Ostrog, a Russian doctor who was detained as a "homicidal maniac"; lawyer, schoolteacher and cricketer Montague John Druitt; a suspect known as both Nathan Kaminsky and David Cohen; and Walter Sickert, a highly regarded British painter.

From BBC

Her seemingly traditional approach — her commitment to oil; her comfort with engaging the European lineage, from Goya to Degas to the British Post-Impressionist Walter Sickert — is itself a kind of trompe l’oeil, serving the liberating purpose of painting Black subjects according purely to her own imagination.

From New York Times

In the shadowy “The Visit by Lamplight,” two women sit, shrouded in inky ominousness, rendered with paint handling so uncharacteristically brusque it recalls Walter Sickert, the British painter of disquiet.

From New York Times

Based on that DNA analysis and other clues she said the killer was the painter Walter Sickert, though many experts believe those letters to be fake.

From Science Magazine