Walter Sickert: A Life. Matthew Sturgis
Street, off the Strand, where a regular ruck of artists, illustrators, writers, and journalists would gather to drink, intrigue, and shout gossip at each other.113
Sickert and Pennell’s joint campaign against Herkomer had been revived when the distinguished RA was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, an honour that they considered singularly inappropriate in the light of his ‘fraudulent attempt to sell, as etchings by himself, illustrations which [were] not etchings’.114 W. E. Henley, the National Observer’s irascible editor, who was delighted to keep the controversy rolling, wrote to Charles Whibley urging him to ‘keep Sickert up to the mark’.115 Sickert needed little encouragement. He wrote an open letter to the RSPE’s president, Seymour Haden, expressing his ‘surprise’ at Herkomer’s elevation, and announcing ‘with the profoundest regret’ the resignation of his own membership.116 It was the first of Sickert’s resignations. It would not be the last. Over the coming years, no artist resigned more often, or with more aplomb. As a first attempt this severance from the RSPE was well managed: modestly dramatic, artistically self-righteous, and not too self-wounding. He was etching less and less.117
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