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

 

A Portrait: Maud

A Portrait: Maud dates from between 1876 and 1878. 1

It was probably among the paintings 'more or less destroyed', according to Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), at the time of Whistler's bankruptcy in 1879. 2


                A Portrait: Maud, photograph, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress
A Portrait: Maud, photograph, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress

A photograph in the Pennell Collection, Library of Congress, is the only record of A Portrait: Maud [YMSM 186], and shows that the painting was badly scratched and scoured. 3 Nothing further is known of it.

Notes:

1: Dated 'about 1876' in YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 186).

2: Way 1912 [more] , p. 115.

3: Pennell 1908 [more] , vol. 2, repr. f.p. 30.

Last updated: 13th December 2020 by Margaret