# Fitzroy Street Group

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The '''Fitzroy Street Group''' was an organisation created to promote and support artists. It was established in 1907 by [Walter Sickert](/source/Walter_Sickert) and merged in 1913 with the [Camden Town Group](/source/Camden_Town_Group) to form the [London Group](/source/London_Group).

==Overview==
In 1907 [Walter Sickert](/source/Walter_Sickert) formed the Fitzroy Street Group. Initial members were [Walter Russell](/source/Walter_Russell), [Spencer Gore](/source/Spencer_Gore_(artist)), and brother [Albert Rutherston](/source/Albert_Rutherston) and [William Rothenstein](/source/William_Rothenstein). [Robert Bevan](/source/Robert_Bevan_(artist)), [Lucien Pissarro](/source/Lucien_Pissarro), [Nan Hudson](/source/Anna_Hope_Hudson) and [Ethel Sands](/source/Ethel_Sands) also joined the organization.<ref>Linden Peach. (2010). "[https://www.questia.com/read/121078230 6: Virginia Woolf and Realist Aesthetics]{{dl|date=July 2021}}," in ''The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts'', ed. [Maggie Humm](/source/Maggie_Humm). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 113.</ref>

The Fitzroy Street Group and the male member only [Camden Town Group](/source/Camden_Town_Group), a male-member organization,<ref>Ian Chilvers, [https://www.questia.com/read/74370572 A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417003059/http://www.questia.com/read/74370572 |date=17 April 2010 }} (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 110.</ref> merged in 1913 to become the [London Group](/source/London_Group).<ref name="Tate Ethel bio">[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group/ethel-sands-r1105348 Ethel Sands.] Tate. Retrieved 17 January 2014.</ref>

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Category:Cultural organisations based in London
Category:Arts in London
Category:British artist groups and collectives
Category:English art

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