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

 

YMSM 406
A Portrait [by B. Whistler]

Artist: Beatrice Whistler
Date: 1893
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

A Portrait [by B. Whistler]

A Portrait was painted by Beatrice Philip (Mrs E. W. Godwin, Mrs J. McN. Whistler) (1857-1896), not James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) as suggested in 1980. 1 It may date from 1893, and was certainly exhibited in that year. 2

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 406).

2: 3rd exhibition, Society of Portrait Painters, London, 1893 (cat. no. 152).

Last updated: 25th October 2019 by Margaret