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

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Brown and Gold: Portrait of Lady Eden

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. 408), plate 271, as 'Brown and Gold: Portrait of Lady Eden'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Exhibition of International Art, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Knightsbridge, London, 1898, Illustrated Souvenir Edition, p. 21 (cat. no. 179) quoting the Cour d'Appel judgement of 1897. Note: the portrait of Lady Eden was not exhibited.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Champ de Mars, Paris, 1894 (cat. no. 1187) as 'Brun et or; – Portrait de Lady E.'

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'ACTION AGAINST MR. WHISTLER', Lincolnshire Echo, 28 February 1895, p. 3.
  • Anon., 'MR. WHISTLER AND LADY EDEN'S PORTRAIT', London Evening Standard, 28 February 1895, p. 3.
  • Anon., 'Fourth Edition', Pall Mall Gazette, London, 28 February 1895, pp. 6-8.
  • Anon., 'SIR W. EDEN AND MR. WHISTLER', Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, Manchester, 21 March 1895, p. 5.
  • Anon., 'Notes', St James's Gazette, London, 21 March 1895, pp. 3-4.
  • Anon., 'Masters of Arts', Pall Mall Gazette, London, 21 March 1895, p. 1.
  • Anon., 'MR. WHISTLER AND LADY EDEN'S PORTRAIT', Evening Mail, London, 22 March 1895, p. 1.
  • Anon., 'Lady Eden's Portrait', London Evening Standard, London, 25 March 1895, p. 5.
  • Anon., 'Eden v. Whistler', Pall Mall Gazette, London, 26 March 1895, p. 4.
  • Huret, Jules, 'L'Artiste et le baronnet', Le Figaro, Paris, 27 March 1895, reprinted in Tout yeux tout oreilles, Paris, 1901, online at https://gallica.bnf.fr.
  • Anon, 'The gentlewoman', Gentlewoman, London, 30 March 1895, p. 25, photograph of Lady Eden repr.
  • Anon., The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 30 March 1895, p. 11.
  • Anon., 'MR WHISTLER AND LADY EDEN'S PORTRAIT', Edinburgh Evening News, Edinburgh, 3 April 1895, p. 6.
  • Anon., 'Our London Letter', Shipley Times and Express, Shipley, 6 April 1895, p. 4 (syndicated).
  • Anon., 'France', Morning Post, London, 19 November 1897, p. 5.
  • Anon., 'The Paris Appeal', St James's Gazette, London, 19 November 1897, p. 12.
  • Anon., 'Lady Eden's Portrait', Northern Echo, Durham, 19 November 1897, p. 3.
  • Anon., 'France', Morning Post, London, 26 November 1897, p. 3.
  • Anon., 'Lady Eden's Portrait', St James's Gazette, London, 26 November 1897, p. 6.
  • Anon., Globe, London, 3 December 1897, p. 3.
  • Anon., 'The End of the Whistler Case', Morning Post, London, 3 December 1897, p. 5.
  • Anon., 'Fourth Edition', Pall Mall Gazette, London, 3 December 1897, p. 7.
  • Anon., 'The Whistler Action', London Evening Standard, London, 3 December 1897, pp. 6-7.
  • Anon., St James's Gazette, London, 3 December 1897, pp. 6-7.
  • 'The International Gallery', Morning Post, London, 19 May 1898, p. 8.
  • Anon., Westminster Gazette, London, 15 May 1899, p. 2.

NOTE: There was very wide coverage of the case at all stages, including many syndicated and repetitive accounts: the newspapers cited above are only a small selection of these. To search for further accounts, see the website of https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Bouyer, Raymond, 'L'Art et la vie au Salon du Champ-de-Mars', L'Artiste, vol. 7, June 1894, at p. 411.
  • Docquois, Georges, 'Brun et or. Conversation avec M. Whistler', Le Journal, 15 Avril 1895, p. 2.

Monographs

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899.

Books on Whistler

  • Anderson, Ronald, and Ann Koval, James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth, London, 1994, pp. 373-74, 386-88.
  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 28 (cat. no. 498).
  • Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, pp. 184-91.
  • Eddy, Arthur Jerome, Recollections and Impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler, Philadelphia and London, 1903, pp. 266-69.
  • Enaud-Lechien, Isabelle, James Whistler, le peintre et le polémiste (1834-1903), Courbevoie, 1995, p. 168.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 44.
  • McMullen, Roy, Victorian Outsider: a Biography of J. A. M. Whistler, London, 1974, p. 257.
  • Pearson, Hesketh, The Man Whistler, London, 1952, pp. 161-63.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, pp. 158, 163-65, 183, 196-99.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, pp. 322, 348.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 457, 547-48, 592.
  • Rothenstein, William, Men and Memories: Recollections of William Rothenstein ..., 2 vols, London, 1931-1932, at vol. 1, p. 270.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 167 (cat. no. 120).
  • Spencer, Robin (ed.), Whistler: A Retrospective, New York, 1989, repr. pl. 110.
  • Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 273, 284.
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 128.
  • Walker, John, James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1987, p. 126.
  • Weintraub, Stanley, Whistler: A Biography, London, 1974, pp. 409-13.

Books, General

  • Barbier, Carl P., (ed.), Correspondance Mallarmé-Whistler: Histoire de la grande amitié de leurs dernières années, Paris, 1964, pp. 229-47.
  • Causey, Andrew, 'Eden vs. Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly', The Trials of Art, Daniel McClean (ed.), London, 2007, pp. 151-57.
  • Eden, Sir Timothy Calvert, The Tribulations of a Baronet, London, 1933, pp. 54-78, watercolour repr. p. 56, pencil drawing repr. fp. 78.
  • Harris, Frank, Contemporary Portraits, New York, 1915, pp. 82-83.
  • Hartrick, Archibald S., A Painter's Pilgrimage Through Fifty Years, Cambridge, 1939, p. 114.
  • McConkey, Kenneth, Edwardian Portraits, Images of an Age of Opulence, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 26, 140-41, repr. pl. 38.
  • Merryman, John, Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts, third edition, London, 1998, p. 234.
  • Wilkes, Lyall, The Aesthetic Obsession, London et al, 1985, pp. 35, 40-41, watercolour by Eden repr. p. 41.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Newton, Joy, Whistler's French Connections, Glasgow University Library, Glasgow, 1988, n.p. (cat. no. 29).
  • Gerdts, William H., Lasting Impressions.American Painters in France 1865-1915, Museé Americain, Giverny, 1992, pp. 39, 117 note 69.
  • Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995, pp. 251, 302, 314-16 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Sutton, Denys, 'A Statesman's Collection', Apollo, vol. 89, 1969, p. 461.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/41205.
  • Purdue, A. W., 'Eden, Sir William, seventh baronet and fifth baronet (1849-1915)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; website at http://www.oxforddnb.com.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 198).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 21st November 2020 by Margaret