Word: bathampton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Walter Richard Sickert, Sr, youthful "old master" of British painting; in Bathampton, England. Widely credited with introducing impressionism in England, he was a young disciple of Degas, a student of Whistler. Of himself as a painter he was once quoted: "My pictures are like the clippings of my toenails; they grow out of me and I have cut them off, and that is all I know about...
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