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Description: | RU Inscr in ink by Rosalind Birnie Philip on verso: "Charles L.Freer died / Sept: 24th.. 1919." CRE WHISTLER, Beatrix; (English; 1857-1896) The cartoonist Phil May (1864-1903) was a friend of Beatrix Whistler's from the time of her marriage to her first husband, E. W. Godwin (1833-1886), architect and designer. May could have influenced Beatrix's interest in caricatures. There are other caricature sketches by Beatrix Whistler in the margins of letters in the Whistler Correspondence, of Toulouse-Lautrec (GUW 06829), a tall woman and short man (GUW 00557), and a man in a cap (GUW 04312).
Charles L. Freer (1856-1919), Detroit industrialist, was Whistler's major patron from the 1890s. Here he is crowned with a halo, when he descended like an angel upon Whistler's studio, eager to buy the latest etchings in 1890.
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 : FREER, CHARLES LANG : HALO : CARICATURE : | 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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