WALTER RICHARD SICKERT, A.R.A. (1860-1942)EppingWALTER RICHARD SICKERT, A.R.A. (1860-1942)Eppingsigned 'Sickert' (lower right), inscribed 'WEIR' (lower left), inscribed again ''WEIR' EPPING 1848' (on the canvas overlap)oil on canvas30 1/2 x 46 1/4 in. (77.5 x 117.4 cm.)Painted circa 1928-30.ProvenanceDr Robert Emmons, by 1930.Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 February 1980, lot 44, as 'Picnic at a Country House'.Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 March 1995, lot 12.LiteratureT.W. Earp, 'The Work of Richard Sickert, A.R.A.', Apollo, 13 June 1930, p. 297, illustrated.W. Baron, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 504, no. 599.ExhibitedLondon, Savile Gallery, Paintings by R. Sickert, A.R.A., 1930, no. 16.London, Leicester Galleries, Retrospective Collection of Drawings and Recent Paintings by Walter Richard Sickert, June 1942, no. 119, as 'A Country House'.