The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Milly Finch dates from 1883/1884.

Milly Finch, Freer Gallery of Art

This work is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 907).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Milly Finch, Freer Gallery of Art

Millie Finch (fl. 1875-1885).

Technique

Technique

See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

History

Provenance

• ca 1884: given by Whistler to Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), according to the latter;
• 1907: sold by Sickert to Obach, London art dealers;
• 1907: bought on 22 October by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 907).

Exhibitions

Although there is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime, it is very likely that it was shown in 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886.

By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be lent to another venue.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 907) as 'Milly Finch'.

Books on Whistler

• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 201, pl. 132.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1907.170a-d.
• Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.