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Description: | RH Inscr. v. b.r. in pencil by Harold Wright "Alice Butt / by Mrs Whistler" CRE WHISTLER, Beatrix; (English; 1857-1896) In c. 1895, Whistler painted two oil portraits of Alice Butt in Chelsea (YMSM 437, Private Collection, and YMSM 438, National Gallery of Art, Washington). This drawing by Beatrix Whistler shows her with a similar hairstyle and triangular neckline as the portrait in the National Gallery of Art. Whistler described Alice Butt as 'charming - quite Italian in type' (Whistler Correspondence, Whistler to John James Cowan, 2 July [1901], GUL C247; GUW 00746 (2004-11-10)). Here Beatrix has conveyed her heavy, dark eyes and full lips with just a few strokes of ink and wash. Alice was probably the 21 year old artist's model, born in Chelsea and living in Fulham, listed in the 1901 Census. If she was born in c. 1880, she would be about 15 in these sketches. The pencil sketches on the back may not be by Beatrix Whistler.
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 : BUTT, ALICE : | 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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