Today, we are updating a piece of art that I wrote about almost three years ago. The title of that chapter was ‘Art Vandalised’. In that chapter, I wrote about an oil painting that I thought was reminiscent of the style of Walter Sickert. Well, I have found an image similar to the one that hangs on my wall. This image of an oil painting was created by #MalcolmDrummond (1880-1945). The following image is titled ‘Nude in an interior’.
Drummond was an intelligent and sociable person. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, with a history degree but shortly thereafter decided to study art. He enrolled at the Slade School, where he was tutored by #WalterRichardSickert. Drummond became one of Sickert’s first students at his new school #RowlandsonHouse. Drummond also became an early member of the #FitzroyStreetGroup and later still a founding member of the #CamdenTownGroup. For an artist to be a member of such auspicious groups, Drummond died in relative obscurity.
Below is the oil that hangs on my wall. It is painted at a slightly different angle, but one can see that it is the same room, the same model, the same bed, the same rug, the same bedspread, etc. This brings me to suggest that my oil is likely painted by Malcolm Drummond or just possibly Sickert himself or another of the Camden Town Group. It is sad that it was vandalised, but such things can be overcome.
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