Walter Richard Sickert

Walter Sickert is widely considered to be the greatest of the British Impressionists. By the time he embarked on the subject of The Old Middlesex in c.1906-7, he had broken away entirely from Whistler’s style and influence and had begun to produce works which explored the treatment of light in an entirely novel way. In his etchings he aimed to transform the tonal contrasts of his paintings and drawings into abstract patterns of light and shade.