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Philip Wilson Steer

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Philip Wilson Steer

by Walter Sickert
oil on canvas, circa 1890
35 1/2 in. x 23 1/2 in. (902 mm x 597 mm)
Bequeathed by Philip Wilson Steer, 1942
Primary Collection
NPG 3116

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  • Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942), Painter. Sitter in 14 portraits, Artist or producer of 3 portraits.

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  • Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 11 portraits, Sitter associated with 21 portraits.

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Steer and Sickert, closely associated as leading figures of the avant-garde, exhibited portraits of each other at the New English Art Club in 1890. This is one of the pair; that of Sickert is now lost. Steer sits in front of Sickert's full-length Portrait of Miss Fancourt which is also lost.

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Current affairs

William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, publishes In Darkest England, in which he compares the supposedly 'civilised' England with 'Darkest Africa'. A critique of the degenerate state of society, Booth also proposed social welfare schemes to alleviate the sufferings of the urban poor.
The world's first electric underground railway opens to the public in London, passing under the Thames and linking the City of London and Stockwell.

Art and science

William Morris founds the Kelmscott Press, a revival of art and craft techniques of book printing. Publications included The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896), with decorative designs and typeface by Morris and illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones.
Vincent Van Gogh dies after shooting himself in the chest in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray first appears in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine .

International

Cecil Rhodes, organiser of the diamond-mining De Beers Consolidated Mines, becomes premier of Cape Colony as part of his expansionist aims in South Africa.
In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Otto von Bismarck.
An international anti-slavery conference is held in Brussels, leading to the signing of a treaty by all the major maritime nations covering action to be taken against the trade in Africa and suppression of it by sea.

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