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

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Lilian Woakes

Nationality: English
Date of birth: 1866
Date of death: 1943
Place of death: Camberwell, London
Category: sitter

Identity:

Lillian was the daughter of the aural surgeon Edward G. Woakes. She married Charles Imray Kirton in 1894, and by 1911 they had two sons, Ralph and Bruce.

Life:

Lillian was painted by Whistler, Portrait of Miss Lilian Woakes y393.

Bibliography:

UK Census 1871 et seq, and Index of deaths, Ancestry.com; Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 .