Walter Richard Sickert had become a pupil…

Walter Richard Sickert had become a pupil of Whistler in 1882, and in 1883 meets Degas in Paris.

These artists greatly influence Sickert's work and personality.

The son of Oswald Adalbert Sickert, a Danish-born German draftsman who settled in England in 1868, had spent several years on the stage and had then gone in 1881 to the Slade School in London.