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Description: | Unframed Inscr. in pencil on verso: "by Mrs Whistler" 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 panel painting is unframed and so has probably not been exhibited. It shows a girl lying on a chaise longue, or one-ended sofa, resting on a cushion. She is not looking at the book she has in her hand.
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 : GIRL : | 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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