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Description: | Unframed None CRE WHISTLER, Beatrix; (English; 1857-1896) Beatrix Whistler's surviving oil paintings are mostly small-scale, intimate studies of domestic settings. They show the women and children of her family reading, sewing, taking tea, etc., subjects echoed by many other female painters of the period. In order to avoid being judged as an amateur woman painter, Beatrix Whistler exhibited under the pseudonym 'Rix Birnie' (an adaptation of her maiden name, Beatrice Birnie Philip), and called herself 'a pupil of Whistler' when she exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, 1885-8.
This painting of a young woman taking tea is painted in muted shades of brown, peacock blue, pink and white. It is an ordinary domestic scene, with a teaset on a tray on the table, and a mantelpiece crowded with objects, a mirror, candlestick and a small, yellow vase. This painting has also been called 'Woman at tea table'.
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 : INTERIOR : | 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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