Provenance

• 1880/1881: given to Antoinette 'Nita' Gaetano Moncrieff (1844-1937) , London.

Antoinette Gaetano Mackie, daughter of John Clarens Mackie, was born in New Orleans. On 10 December 1878 she married a retired naval officer, Lynedoch Needham Moncrieff (1841-1883). She was later recorded as Antoinette Marie Lynedoch Moncrieff, and died in Kensington on 25 July 1937.

The Moncrieffs lived near Whistler, at Cadogan Place in Chelsea. They had one daughter, Mary Mercedes Julie Moncrieff (1880-1974) who married Henry Crofton Schneider (1876-1939). See further details in 'Thoughts at Sunrise' by Nita Moncrieff [M.0833].

Exhibitions

• 1905: 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. 127) as 'Illustrations for "Thoughts at Sunrise," a song by Mrs. Moncrieff'.