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Named after the seedy district of North London that was the backdrop to both their art and lives, the Camden Town Group, founded by Walter Sickert in 1911, was inspired by French Post-Impressionism, although their view of life in the modern city was somewhat darker than their Parisian counterparts. They painted the underbelly of London in the new century – alienated couples in murky interiors, prostitutes laid out on broken bedsteads as classical nudes, the lime-lit world of the music hall.
Key figures in the Group, aside from Sickert, were Robert Bevan, Spencer Gore, Harold Gilman & Charles Ginner.
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