Current Location: In storage
Titles
Head of Walter Sickert (1860-1942)
Maker(s)
Sculptor:
Stirling Lee, Thomas
Entities
Categories
Description
Bronze, cast, and patinated brown. Of approximately circular outline, depicting the head of the painter Walter Sickert in profile to right, and the name 'SICKERT' in raised letters along the viewer's right edge of the medallion.
Notes
History note: Lillian Browse, CBE (Mrs Sydney Lines), London
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Mrs Lillian Browse
Measurements and weight
Height: 16.8 cm
Width: 15.8 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2005)
by
Browse, Lillian, CBE
Dating
19th Century, Late#
Victoria I
Production date:
circa
AD 1882
Note
Thomas Stirling Lee trained at the Royal Academy, London and in Paris and Rome. A close friend of the sculptor, Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934), Stirling Lee worked primarily in marble and bronze. Commissions included a series of reliefs for the exterior of St George's Hall, Liverpool, bas-reliefs for Leeds Town Hall and carvings for Westminster Cathedral.
School or Style
New Sculpture Movement
Project
Components of the work
At Bottom
Depth 2.2 cm
Sculpture
Depth 2.4 cm
Height 16.2 cm
Width 17.3 cm
Materials used in production
brown
Patination
copper-alloy
Bronze
Techniques used in production
Casting
: Bronze, cast, and patinated brown
Patination
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular paper label partly covered by the next label
- Text: SICKERT underlined/by/STIRLING LEE
- Location: On reverse
- Method of creation: Hand-written in blue biro
- Type: Label
Inscription present: narrow rectangular pale cream cread card label stuck onto the surface with cellotape
- Text: THOMAS STIRLING LEE (1856-1916)/Walter Richard Sickert (underlined) c. 1882/Bronze bas-relief medallion, 6¼ ins. diameter
- Location: On the reverse
- Method of creation: Typed in black
- Type: Label
- Text: CHRISTIE'S (printed) 25 (in blue biro) and three bar codes each numbered 1642 3978 (printed), and to left 'WH341' and '44' in a circle, and by left lower corner initials MDB or MTB
- Location: On the reverse
- Method of creation: Printed in black and hand-written in blue biro and black bir
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.17-2006
Primary reference Number: 134035
Entry form: CAM_CCF_M_17_2006
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 3 January 2020
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
