Walter Dendy Sadler was an English Victorian artist who specialized in everyday and character scenes, often comic scenes from the 18th century.

He was born on May 12, 1854 in Dorking, Surrey, UK. He spent his childhood and youth in Horsham. Already at an early age he demonstrated a penchant for painting.

At the age of 16, he decided to become an artist and attended the Hatherley School of Art in London for two years. Then he continued his studies in Dusseldorf, under Wilhelm Simmer. Gradually, Sadler’s individual, mockingly realistic style developed.

Since 1872, individual paintings of his began to be exhibited in various galleries. In 1895 – the first exhibition of Sadler’s works (Levefre Gallery).

From 1877 to 1895 he lived in London, then moved to Hemingford Gray, where he died on November 13, 1923, at the age of 69.

Sadler’s most famous works are paintings from monastic life: “Thursday” (other titles: “Quiet, Brother, Quiet”, “Tomorrow Will Be Friday”) and “Friday”.

Sadler painted modern people in domestic settings and everyday life, depicting them with comic expressions. His subjects usually unfolded in the late 18th or early 19th centuries on sentimental, romantic and humorous themes.