The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0015
Portraits of servant maids
Date
Portraits of servant maids date from July 1847 when Anna Matilda Whistler (1804-1881) and family visited the Picard family in Kirby Lonsdale. 1
The drawings are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 15).
Images
Portraits of servant maids, no image available
Subject
Sitter
Servant girls in the house of Richard Stuart Picard (1807-1887) and Elizabeth Winstanley (1800-1875), in Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, England. The 1861 census records them as having several servants including a cook, Ann Booth, aged 19, and housemaid Jane Routh, aged 16 (both too young to have been the sitters to young James Whistler).
Technique
Technique
Unknown.
History
Provenance
Unknown.
Exhibitions
Unknown.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat no. 15) as 'Portraits of serving maids'.
Notes:
1: Diary of A. McN. Whistler, New York Public Library.