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

 

Portrait of Miss Florence Leyland

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 107) as 'Portrait of Miss Florence Leyland', plates 73, 388.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 522-30).
  • Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk (G.136).

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Probably I Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1877 (cat. no. 8) 'Harmony in Amber and Black'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Taylor, Tom, 'The Grosvenor Gallery', The Graphic, London, 12 May 1877.

Journals 1855-1905

  • [Rossetti, William Michael], 'Notes on Art and Archaeology', The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art, new series, no. 11, 17 February 1877, pp. 147-48.
  • Wilde, Oscar, 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Dublin University Magazine, vol. 90, no. 535, July 1877, pp. 118-26, at p. 124.
  • Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 'James McNeill Whistler', Renaissance Latine, vol. 4, no. 6, 15 June 1905, pp. 353-78, at p. 358.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907 (cat. no. 482).
  • Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobsen, Blyth McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor. Lovely Little Games, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, p. 195, repr.
  • Hartmann, Sadakichi C. (pseudonym of Sidney Allen), The Whistler Book: A Monograph of the Life and Position in Art of James McNeill Whistler, Together with a Careful Study of His More Important Works, Boston, 1910, p. 129.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 71.
  • Merrill, Linda, A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in 'Whistler v. Ruskin', Washington and London, 1992, pp. 40-43.
  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 127, 139, 141-42, 209, 278-79, fig. 3.29.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 175-76.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, p. 428, repr. f.p. 264 as 'Portraits of Maud (Destroyed)'.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 105, 134.
  • Watts-Dunton, Theodore, Nine letters to Th. Watts-Dunton from J. McN. Whistler, London, 1922, p. 17.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Goodyear, William and A. D. Savage, Catalogue of Paintings, The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, 1910, p. 86 (cat. no. 503).

EXHIBITION:

  • Paintings in Oil and Pastel by James McNeill Whistler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 14) as 'Portrait of Florence Leyland'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Goodyear, William H., Museum News, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, vol. 2, no. 3, December 1906, pp. 37-43.
  • 'Museum Notes', International Studio, February 1907, p. cxii, repr. p. cxiii.
  • International Studio, February 1921, pp. cxxi, cxxv.
  • Sale advert, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, Burlington Magazine, December 1965, p. xx.

Websites

  • Portland Museum of Art website at http://collections.portlandmuseum.org.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 121).

Other

  • Merrill, Linda, mss, Portland Museum archives, 1988.

Last updated: 30th December 2020 by Margaret