The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Panels at South Kensington Museum was drawn on the back of a letter from Henry Cole (1808-1882) to Whistler dated 20 March 1872. ¹

Panels at South Kensington Museum, Glasgow University Library

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 457) as by Whistler. This entry has been revised.

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Subject

Site

Panels at South Kensington Museum, Glasgow University Library

This shows the arched panels in South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum, London) in which the portraits of artists and sculptors were to be placed. Whistler's projected panels were never completed.

Technique

Technique

Panels at South Kensington Museum, Glasgow University Library

It is not certain who drew this sketch; it could have been drawn by Henry Cole (1808-1882) or another colleague to indicate the placing of the projected figures.

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1955: given by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

It has not, as far as is known, been exhibited.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 457) as 'Panels at South Kensington Museum' by J. McN. Whistler.

Websites

• The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow. GUW #05518.