The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0508
Frederick Leyland seated
Date
Frederick Leyland seated dates from about 1873.
Frederick Leyland seated, Private Collection
The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 508).
Images
Frederick Leyland seated, Private Collection
Subject
Sitter
Frederick Leyland seated, Private Collection
Frederick Dawson Leyland (1856-1916).
Technique
Composition
Frederick Leyland seated, Private Collection
The drawing may have been a study for the projected Portrait of Master Frederick Leyland y108.
History
Provenance
- 1870s: given to the sitter's mother, Frances Leyland (1834-1910);
- By 1995: passed by family descent to the present owner.
Exhibitions
It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 508) as 'Frederick Leyland seated'.
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 108).
Books on Whistler
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, repr. f.p. 128.