Charles Sims (1873 -1928)

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Charles Sims reputation as a painter was established with his first one-man show at the Leicester Galleries in 1906. He became best known for lyrical open-air scenes. In 1918 he was sent to France as an official artist. He became gradually more reserved and aloof, and appeared to be a very lonely and pathetic figure. He was Keeper of the Academy Schools from 1920 to 1926, and earned much of his living by portrait painting during this period. In the last two years of his life he worked on a series which he called Spirituals or Spiritual Ideas. He killed himself shortly before six of these paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1928.

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