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

 

Portrait of Miss Marion Peck

Composition


                    Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck, The Hunterian
Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck, The Hunterian

                    Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck, The Hunterian
Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck, The Hunterian

It is known that the portrait was repainted many times and that the sitter posed over 90 times. Two drawings, Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck [M.1542] and Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck [M.1543], give some idea of the composition.

Technique

Unknown.

Conservation History

Unknown. Probably destroyed.

Frame

Unknown.

Last updated: 3rd January 2021 by Margaret