Walter Richard Sickert

Girl at a Window, Little Rachel

1907

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Artist: Walter Richard Sickert 1860–1942
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 508 × 406 mm
frame: 765 × 665 × 75 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by HM Government in lieu of tax and allocated to the Tate Gallery 1991
Reference: T06447

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This is one of six paintings and numerous drawings of Sickert’s frame-maker’s 13-year-old daughter, known affectionately as ‘Little Rachel’. Sickert described the series as a ‘set of studies of Illumination’. The scene outside the window is Mornington Crescent Gardens, Camden. The girl’s gaze is turned away from both the artist and the view. The closed window may suggest the future that was expected of her at the time, a future inside the home, as a wife and mother.

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