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Description: | Gilded reeded, 44.0 x 55.7 x 5.4 None CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) Lady Sybil Eden (1867-1945) was the wife of Sir William Eden, a landowner and amateur painter of watercolours. Sir William commissioned Whistler to paint his wife, but when a disagreement over price occurred, legal proceedings were taken against Whistler. Therefore, in order that the painting could not be recovered by Sir William if Whistler lost the case, he painted out the face of Lady Eden and replaced it with the portrait of an American, Mrs Herbet Dudley Hale. Sir William Eden also made a watercolour copy of this piece, which is now in the collection of Lord Eden of Winton. Lady Eden was also painted by Philip Wilson Steer in 1896 (Sutton 1969 fig.2), and by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1907 (McConkey Plate 38a).
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: | LADY SYBIL EDEN : LAWSUIT : MRS HERBERT DUDLEY HALE : PORTRAIT : 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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