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

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Elizabeth Carolina Stevens

Title: Mrs
Birthname: Elizabeth Caroline Hughes
Nationality: British
Date of birth: ca 1825
Date of death: 1900
Place of death: Fulham, London
Category: collector

Identity:

It is possible that she was a model. She was certainly the wife of a grocer, William John Stevens.

Life:

She acquired a painting Self-Portrait y124, possibly in exchange for debts, which she gave to her daughter Janet Elizabeth Eason, Mrs W.J. Stevens (1853-1928).

Bibliography:

Ancestry.co.uk