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Description: | Gilded reeded, 89.2 x 73.7 x 5.4 None CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) This portrait of Whistler's sister-in-law, ward and heiress, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), was seen in Whistler's Fitzroy Street studio by Amulet Ohl, a friend of Whistler's. He described the sitter as "a slim sleek thoroughbred English girl, in a glossy black dress, her hair and eyebrows the same shining blackness. The haughty, high-lifted head, the expression, treatment, arrangement, were more suggestive of Velasquez than any other Whistler portrait I have ever seen." Rosalind was also the subject of at least four other oil portraits, as well as a number of drawings and lithographs by Whistler. (See GLAHA 46201/ 46244/ 46260/ 46369/ 46382).
Birnie Philip Bequest, 1958. | 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 : ROSALIND BIRNIE PHILIP : BOA : SATIN : VELASQUEZ : WHISTLER CENTENARY : IAA : | 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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