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

 

Portrait of Miss Amy Brandon Thomas

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 392), plate 246, as 'Portrait of Miss Amy Brandon Thomas'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITION:

  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 46).
  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 76) as 'Portrait of a Baby'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • None.

Books, General

  • Brandon-Thomas, Jevan, Charley's Aunt's Father: A Life of Brandon Thomas, London, 1955, p. 145.
  • Casteras, ‎Susan P., Christopher Forbes, ‎Victorian childhood: paintings selected from the Forbes Magazine collection by Christopher Forbes, Yale Center for British Art, New York, 1986, p. 57, pl. 28.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • The Pre-Raphaelites and their Times, Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Hamamatsu City Museum; The Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery; Daimaru Museum of Art; Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1985 (cat. no. 50).
  • Childhood in Victorian Painting: The Best of Corporate Art in America, The Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York, 1985 (cat. no. 3).
  • Chairman’s Choice, The Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York, 1988, and The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1988-1989 (cat. no. 40).
  • When We Were Young: Children and Childhood in British Art, 1880-1989, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 1989 (cat. no. 2) repr.
  • 200 Years of American Art from the Forbes Magazine Collection, The Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York, 1999 (cat. no. 21).
  • Whistler: A Centenary Tribute, The Fine Art Society, London, 2003 (cat. no. 2) repr.

SALE:

  • Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 29 May 1981 (lot 6).
  • Sotheby's, New York 4 June 1982 (lot 32).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Clifford, H. Dalton, 'A Farmhouse Converted for Comfort', Country Life, 127, 3 March 1960, pp. 438-39, at p. 439, repr.

Websites

  • None.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 311).

Other

  • None

Last updated: 16th October 2020 by Margaret