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

 

Penthouse of the public house in St Ives, Cornwall

Technique


                    Penthouse of the public house in St Ives, Cornwall, Thomas Colville Fine Art
Penthouse of the public house in St Ives, Cornwall, Thomas Colville Fine Art

According to Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) it was done from memory, 'It was painted under my eyes, after we had spent the preceding evening studying the scene from Nature - a little lean-to, tiled pent-house roof outside a public house in the central place of the town.' 1

Notes:

1: Sickert, Walter R., letter to the editor, 'The Works of Whistler', New Age, vol. 10, 29 February 1912, p. 431, no. 18.

Last updated: 18th February 2021 by Margaret