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Description: | Gilded reeded, 204.2 x 101.7 x 6.2 stamp; v. (stretcher) "BLANCHET / 20 / RUE SAINT BENOIT / PARIS" CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) Miss Milly Finch was a professional model who posed for Whistler during the 1880s. In painting this portrait, Whistler's main interest was not in capturing a true likeness of the sitter, but rather in concentrating on the themes of colour and form. Hence this portrait, like the two other full-length oils of the same subject, also in the Hunterian collection (See GLAHA 46321/46322), can be seen as related exercises in colour harmony. There is also a watercolour of Milly Finch in the Hunterian collection (See GLAHA 46090) as well as several other watercolours located in America, as recorded in MacDonald 1995.
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 : FAN : MILLY FINCH : 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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