The Camden Town Group in Context

Walter Richard Sickert and Thérèse Lessore married in 1926, and in 1934 the couple moved to St Peter’s-in-Thanet, near Broadstairs in Kent, before moving to Bathampton in Somerset in 1938, where Sickert died on 22 January 1942. This photograph shows the couple in the porch of their house, and is inscribed on the reverse that the location is Thanet. However, other photographs in the Tate Archive that are from this series are inscribed as being taken at their house in Bathampton by Andrina Schweder, the sister of Sickert’s second wife, Christine Drummond Angus (c.1877–1920), and include her husband Ronald Schweder. An inscription on the reverse of this photograph states that it was taken by Ronald. All of these photographs were taken at the same time, therefore, in either Bathampton or Thanet. This photograph shows the older, bearded Sickert known from such paintings as The Servant of Abraham 1929 (Tate T00259).