FITZROY STREET GROUP
The Fitzroy Street Group was formed by Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) in 1907 in rooms near his studio in Fitzroy Street, to the north of central London. The original membership consisted of Spencer Gore (1878-1914), Harold John Wilde Gilman (1876-1919), Anne Hope [Nan] Hudson (1869-1957), Ethel Sands (1873-1962), Walter Westley Russell, William Rothenstein (1872-1945) and his brother Albert Daniel Rothenstein, who later changed his name to Rutherston (1881-1953). Their aim was to explore contemporary styles and methods, thereby challenging the mainstream traditions of the New English Art Club. Together they established the first artists' collective. Among the prominent artists who attended later meetings were Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925), Malcolm Cyril Drummond (1880-1945), Augustus Edwin John (1878-1961), Henry Lamb (1883-1960), James Bolivar Manson (1879-1945) and William Whithead Ratcliffe (1870-1955). In 1911 many of the Group's members, including Walter Sickert, formed the nucleus of the new Camden Town Group, and by November 1913 the Fitzroy Street Group had ceased to exist.