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

 

YMSM 238
Harmony in Fawn Colour and Purple: Portrait of Miss Milly Finch

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1882/1885
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46323
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 189.3 x 88.7 cm (74 1/2 x 35")
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Harmony in Fawn Colour and Purple: Portrait of Miss Milly Finch

Harmony in Fawn Colour and Purple: Portrait of Miss Milly Finch dates from the early 1880s, probably between 1882 and 1885. 1

This unfinished portrait of Milly Finch appears to be the only one of the three known oil portraits of her not listed by Whistler in 1886. 2

Harmony in Fawn Colour and Purple: Portrait of Miss Milly Finch, The Hunterian
Harmony in Fawn Colour and Purple: Portrait of Miss Milly Finch, The Hunterian
Harmony in Coral and Blue: Miss Finch, The Hunterian
Harmony in Coral and Blue: Miss Finch, The Hunterian
Harmony in Blue and Violet: Miss Finch, The Hunterian
Harmony in Blue and Violet: Miss Finch, The Hunterian

It is dated by the costume and by comparison with other portraits of Milly Finch, Harmony in Coral and Blue: Miss Finch [YMSM 237] and Harmony in Blue and Violet: Miss Finch [YMSM 239].

Notes:

1: Dated 'Probably ... mid-1880s' in YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 238).

2: List, [1886/1887], formerly dated [4/11 January 1892], GUW #06795.

Last updated: 19th October 2020 by Margaret