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Description: | Gilded reeded, 203.0 x 103.0 x 7.5 s. with butterfly; c.l. CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) The sitter for this portrait was Beatrix Birnie Philip, (1857-1896), daughter of the Scottish sculptor, John Birnie Philip. She married Whistler in 1888 after the death in 1886 of her first husband, the architect E. W. Godwin. Whistler and Godwin had been good friends. Beatrix was a gifted artist in her own right and a number of her paintings, etchings and drawings are also included in the Hunterian collection. It is believed that this work was painted at Whistler's studio in 454, Fulham Road, London. Whistler recorded this picture when on exhibition at the Society of British Artists in 1886, in a drawing in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA (MacDonald 1995 (1127). Louise Jopling (1843-1933), a poetess and painter of portraits and figure compositions, also painted a portrait of Beatrix Birnie Philip. Joseph Middlemore Jopling, Louise Jopling's second husband, was best man at Whistler's wedding to Beatrix in 1888.
Birnie Philip Gift, 1935, not lendable. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : HARMONY : BEATRICE WHISTLER : GASLIGHT : CARICATURE : LAMPLIGHT : WHISTLER CENTENARY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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