One of Madame Villain's Sons

Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)

Charleston

circa 1904

Madame Villain was Sickert's landlady-housekeeper in Dieppe from August 1899. The portrait is believed to be of Maurice Villain, who was Sickert's illegitimate son.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 40 x 49.9cm
• Art Fund Grant: £14000 ( Total: £24,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2002
• Vendor: Anonymous

Provenance

Purchased by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell in the 1920s; brought to Charleston in 1939; Angelica Garnett; Henrietta Garnett; on loan to Charleston since 1998.

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