Oswald Sickert

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Oswald Adalbert Sickert (21 February 1828 – 11 November 1885) was a Danish artist known for dramatic landscapes and engravings in the English style. He was born in Altona, then part of Denmark, to painter and engraver Johann Jürgen Sickert. He trained with his father and at the Copenhagen Academy (1844–1846). In 1852 he went to Munich to study, then spent six months in Paris before settling in London. He moved to England around the time of the Great Exhibition after his work was recommended to Ralph Nicholson Wornum, Keeper of the National Gallery, by Freiin Rebecca von Kreusser. He opened a studio in London and became a British citizen, showing his work at the British Institute, the Grosvenor Gallery and other venues. He married Eleanor Louisa Henry, the illegitimate daughter of English astronomer Richard Sheepshanks. They had five sons and one daughter, but none of their children had grandchildren. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. His paintings and sketches are held at Islington Local History Centre, which also houses papers in the Walter Sickert archive related to him.