Walter Sickert
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"Walter Richard Sickert", born in Munich, Germany, was a painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century.

Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. His oeuvre also included portraits of well-known personalities and images derived from press photographs. He is considered a prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism.

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(About the incessant sopping drizzle in Normandy)It can't go on foreverIt would if it couldBut there's no use talkingFor it wouldn't if it could.

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Nothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed.

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