Eleanor Ruth McNay
Birthname: Eleanor Ruth McNay
Alias: Nora
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 16 January 1868
Place of birth: South Norwood, Surrey
Date of death: 1886
Place of death: Croydon, Surrey
Category: sitter
Alias: Nora
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 16 January 1868
Place of birth: South Norwood, Surrey
Date of death: 1886
Place of death: Croydon, Surrey
Category: sitter
Identity:
She was the daughter of Mary Isabella and Thomas Fothergill McNay of Audley Villa, Selhurst Road, South Norwoo.d
Life:
She may have been sketched (Mrs or Miss McNay m0868) and painted (Portrait of Miss Nora McNay y348) by Whistler in the early 1880s.
Bibliography:
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 .
