Winifred Alice Beaumont
Birthname: Elliot
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 24 July 1875
Place of birth: Bombay
Date of death: 25 July 1958
Place of death: Buenos Aires
Category: sitter
Identity:
The daughter of Frederick Augustus Hugh Elliot and Constance Alice Impey, she was born in Bombay on 24 March 1875. She was married in 1894 and went to live at l0 Westbourne Gardens, London. Her husband, James Arthur Beaumont, M.A., of St John's College, Cambridge, was curate of St Paul's, South Hampstead, 1892-1895, of St Paul's, Paddington, 1895-1899, and of St John's, Wood Road, from 1900.
Her first husband died in 1920. Mrs Beaumont later became a dressmaker. She married, secondly, John Godolphin Bennett, a Captain in the Royal Engineers, in May 1925. She died on 25 July 1958.
Life:
She posed to Whistler for Head of Mrs Beaumont y430 in late 1894 or 1895.
Walter Sickert described her as the 'pretty art student wife of a curate' (letter to F. Pash, Islngton Public Library) and said she posed in his studio at 13 Robwert Street.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 .
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