Walter Richard Sickert

Here Sickert captures the child music hall performer Dot Hetherington on the stage at the Bedford in Camden, singing ‘The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery’. This is Sickert’s paintings experimenting with stage mirror viewpoints, showing the action as reflected by the mirror at the side of the auditorium. The music hall had vulgar and bawdy connotations in the 1800s, and Sickert was considered extremely daring to depict such a setting.

Please note that the largest print size we are able to offer for this artwork is 60 x 80 cm.

• Artist Walter Richard Sickert
• Artwork Little Dot Hetherington at the Bedford Music Hall
• Exhibition Walter Sickert
• Material FSC Certified paper and wood
• Credit Original: Little Dot Hetherington at the Bedford Music Hall 1888-89 Oil paint on canvas 61 x 61 cm Private collection. Photo: James Mann

Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942) was considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. He had a direct influence on the style and subject matter of artists in the Camden Town Group and the Euston Road School. Sickert’s active career as an artist lasted for nearly 60 years and his output was vast, including many domestic interiors, portraits, townscapes and theatrical subjects, later basing many of his paintings on photos. Also a writer and teacher, he was a proactive, political force in artistic circles. He was acknowledged as a catalyst for progress and modernity, yet someone who remained independent of groups, cliques and categories.

• Product Code S22304