The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

F. R. Leyland dates from about 1879 and was stuck in an album by Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890). ¹

F. R. Leyland, Glasgow University Library

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 721).

Images

Subject

Sitter

F. R. Leyland, Glasgow University Library

A caricature of Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892).

Technique

Conservation History

F. R. Leyland, Glasgow University Library

This caricature of Leyland has an uneven arched top, and has been cut from a larger sheet.

History

Provenance

• ca 1879: acquired by Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890), London, and placed in an album;
• After 1884: the album was acquired by Cornelius Cox (1835-1889) and returned to Whistler;
• 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 Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Cornelius Cox was the father of Amy Ellen Cox, Mrs T. R. Way (1865-1949), wife of Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913). Way's father, Thomas Way (1837-1915), instructed Whistler in the art of lithography in the late 1870s and printed his lithographs.It was on the Ways' advice that the album was shown to Whistler.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 721) as 'F. R. Leyland'.

Books on Whistler

• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp.77-79.

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, 2003-2005. GUW #02850