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

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Portrait of Mrs Walter Cave

Provenance

Sickert recorded that Whistler nearly finished a portrait of Mrs Walter Cave which he had begun, and gave it to Sickert, 'in a then fit of good humour', with two other canvases (Head of Mrs Beaumont [YMSM 430] and possibly Head of a Girl [YMSM 432]). 1 According to Sickert, it was subsequently lost, or, in William Rothenstein's opinion, completed and sold by Whistler 'as a work of his own.' 2

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Notes:

1: Sickert to Florence Pash, [1900], London, Islington Public Library; Sickert 1911 [more] , at p. 160.

2: Sickert, ibid.; Rothenstein 1931 [more] , vol. 1, p. 169.

Last updated: 25th November 2020 by Margaret