Collection Details
Painted c.1935.

Literature
Catalogue for Royal Academy Exhibition, 1987 (p. 246, cat 160); Richard Shone, Walter Sickert, 1988 (pl. 74).

Exhibition Details
Royal Academy, 1987 – British Art in the 20th Century: the Modern Movement (cat 160).

Background
This full-length portrait of the 2nd Lord Faringdon dates from the late part of Sickert’s career – a period of renewed innovation. It is typical of this period in being a large coarsely textured canvas worked from photographs. Sickert painted the debonair young aristocrat breezing down the steps of his country house, Buscot Park, with a sharp suit and a wicked

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