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...Friendship. For almost 20 years Walter and Harry often took Whistler for boat rides on the Thames, watching him as he made studies for his famed "Nocturnes." Then one day, as impulsively as he had adopted them, Whistler dropped them. He had a new follower: young Walter Richard Sickert, later to become the leading British painter of his day. Not much was ever heard again of Harry Greaves, but Walter remained a dogged admirer at a distance...
Walter Greaves won a measure of fame with a London show in 1911, but the cheers came mostly from Whistler's enemies, who took revenge by insisting that Greaves was really the original and Whistler the imitator. Not all the tributes stemmed from spite. Wrote Sickert: "Whistler gave me to understand that the Greaves boys were negligible. ... I herewith make public penitence . . . Walter Greaves is a great master...
...show didn't sell well; neither did a subsequent one. In 1919 some of his friends-including Sickert and Max Beer-bohm-gave Walter Greaves a big dinner and a check for ?150. He died, grey and penniless, in 1930 in a London almshouse, dejected because the authorities would not let him blacken his hair, so that it would be like Whistler...
Prime Minister's Pointers. Churchill's chief friends in the art world were the English academic masters Sir John Lavery, Walter Sickert, Sir William Orpen. From Lavery he took lessons, from Sickert and Orpen, advice and encouragement. All of them influenced him. But one day in the south of France he met two impressionists at work and talked with them. Of their effect on him he later wrote: "Look also at the blue of the Mediterranean. How can you depict and record it? Certainly not by any single color that was ever manufactured. The only way in which...
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...