Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Rosa Beatrice Rendall

Birthname: Rosa Beatrice Rendall
Alias: Rosie
Nationality: English
Date of birth: 1886
Place of birth: Dorset
Date of death: 1958
Category: sitter

Identity:

She was the daughter of Lucy and George John Rendall, Mayor of Lyme Regis, Dorset.

She became a draper's assistant in Exeter, Devon, and in 1914 married Ernest Aubrey Herridge, a gentleman's outfitter, of St Leonards, Exeter. She died in 1958, and her husband died in 1963.

Life:

IShe posed toWhistler for The Little Rose of Lyme Regis y449. It is possible she also posed to Arthur Haythorne Studd (1863-1919) in Lyme Regis.

Bibliography:

UK census 1891 et seq. Ancestry.com.