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

 

YMSM 432
Head of a Girl

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1894/1895
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Head of a Girl

Titles

Only one title has been suggested:

  • 'Head of a Girl' (1980, YMSM). 1

Description

The head of a woman.

Sitter

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) described the sitter as 'a girl who is married to a big colonial-warren [wares?] shop in Pall Mall.' 2 A number of colonial supply shops in Pall Mall are listed in the Post Office Directory for 1900 but the names of the shop-keepers have not helped to identify the sitter.

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 432).

2: Sickert to Florence Pash, ca 1900, Islington Public Library, London.

Last updated: 3rd January 2021 by Margaret