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WALTER RICHARD SICKERT (BRITISH 1860-1942) EPPING, AFTER HARRISON WILLIAM WEIR 1848 Oil on canvas Signed (lower right), inscribed Weir (lower left) further inscribed and dated 1848 to stretcher overlap (verso) 76.5 x 118cm (30 x 46¼ in.) Painted circa 1928-30. Provenance: Private Collection, Dr Robert Emmons, by 1930 Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 22 February 1980, lot 44, as 'Picnic at a Country House' Sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1994, lot 107 Sale, Sotheby's, London, Modern British and Irish Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 8 March 1995, lot 12 The Rowse Collection Exhibition: London, Savile Gallery, Paintings by R. Sickert, A.R.A., 1930, no. 16 London, Leicester Galleries, Retrospective Collection of Drawings and Recent Paintings by Walter Richard Sickert June 1942, no. 119, as 'A Country House' Literature: T.W. Earp, The work of Richard Sickert, A.R.A. (1930) p.297 Wendy Baron, Sickert, Paintings & Drawings, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 504, no. 599 The present lot comes from a series of works Sickert produced known as 'Echoes'. The series was first inspired by an encounter with Victorian artist Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897). Sickert visited Gilbert in 1893 to draw a portrait study of the artist. Following the sitting Sickert boasted that Gilbert had in fact retouched the drawing and that the work had become a collaboration. It was this work that inspired Sickert to start creating works influenced by artists from the past to produce 'Echoes'. Sickert would select an engraving or black and white illustration from a journal by a well known artist and reproduce the image in his own vibrant, modernist colour palette. The works sought to 'echo' the past which supported Sickert's campaign that modernism paved the way for contemporary artists but did not eliminate practices of the past. This work was most likely painted from the engraving by T. Bolton after Harrison William Weir